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Identification of the region required for monomerization of the rolling circle plasmid pKYM.
DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes - 28 Feb 1998
Yasukawa H, Viller E, Masamune Y
Abstract excerpt
Plasmid pKYM, isolated from the gram-negative bacterium Shigella sonnei, is a small multicopy plasmid which replicates by a rolling circle mechanism. The formation of multimers has been observed in a derivative of pKYM which lost a part of the origin region, and the loss of the monomerization mechanism would have led to these multimers. By analyzing the constructs of several mutants, we discovered that a DNA...
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