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Evaluation of transferability of R-plasmid in bacteriocin-producing donors to bacteriocin-resistant recipients.
Japanese journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2012
Usui Masaru, Hiki Mototaka, Murakami Koichi, Ozawa Manao, Nagai Hidetaka, Asai Tetsuo
Abstract excerpt
Bacteriocin-producing Escherichia coli (donors) rapidly kill conventional recipient E. coli DH5α in conjugation experiments. To evaluate plasmid transferability of bacteriocin-producing donors, we established 2 different bacteriocin-resistant mutants derived from E. coli DH5α and used them as recipients. When the bacteriocin-resistant mutants were used in conjugation experiments, the transconjugant recovery...
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