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. 1993 Aug;59(8):2737–2739. doi: 10.1128/aem.59.8.2737-2739.1993

Recombination-Deficient Mutants of an Extreme Thermophile, Thermus thermophilus

Tohru Takada 1, Satoshi Akanuma 1, Takashi Kotsuka 1, Masatada Tamakoshi 1, Akihiko Yamagishi 1, Tairo Oshima 1,*
PMCID: PMC182350  PMID: 16349029

Abstract

Recombination-deficient strains of the extreme thermophile Thermus thermophilus have been prepared from a leucine-isoleucine mutant strain (NM6). The availability of such recombination-deficient thermophilic bacterial strains may provide especially good hosts for work with plasmid vectors.

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