Multicopy plasmid stability: Revisiting the dimer catastrophe

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 291, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 119-127

  Field, C M ^a   Summers, D K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial population model; Plasmid ColE1; Plasmid metabolic load; Plasmid replication control; Stochastic model

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIMER; MONOMER; RCD PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL ORGANELLE; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PLASMID; PROTEIN; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; CLONING VECTOR; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DAUGHTER CELL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC STABILITY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, GENETIC; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 80053492422     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.09.006     Document Type: Article

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