Mechanisms of deletion formation in Escherichia coli plasmids. II. Deletions mediated by short direct repeats.

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Mechanisms of deletion formation in Escherichia coli plasmids. II. Deletions mediated by short direct repeats.

Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 1 Aug 1991

Mazin A V, Kuzminov A V, Dianov G L, Salganik R I

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A set of plasmids containing 42, 21 and 31 bp direct repeats was used to analyze the effect of repeat length on the frequencies of deletion formation and the structure of the deleted derivatives of different recombination-deficient Escherichia coli strains. Agarose gel electrophoresis of plasmid...

Topics

Electrophoresis, Agar Gel
Escherichia coli
Genes, Bacterial
Multigene Family
Mutation
Plasmids
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
Restriction Mapping

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