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Degradation of individual chromosomes in recA mutants of Escherichia coli.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Sept 1993
Skarstad K, Boye E
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Rapidly growing wild-type Escherichia coli cells contain two, four, or eight fully replicated chromosomes after treatment with rifampin, reflecting that all replication origins are initiated simultaneously. Cells with defects in the timing of the initiation of replication may contain three, five, six, or seven fully replicated chromosomes after such treatment. This phenotype, termed the asynchrony phenotype, is...
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