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. 1992 Feb;174(3):1060–1062. doi: 10.1128/jb.174.3.1060-1062.1992

Replication of the R6K plasmid during the Escherichia coli cell cycle.

J D Keasling 1, B O Palsson 1, S Cooper 1
PMCID: PMC206197  PMID: 1732198

Abstract

The cell-cycle replication pattern of the R6K plasmid has been investigated by using the membrane-elution technique to produce cells labelled at different times during the division cycle and scintillation counting for quantitative analysis of radioactive plasmid DNA. The high-copy plasmid R6K replicates exponentially in a cell-cycle-independent manner. A mini-R6K plasmid deleted for the ori alpha origin of replication also replicates, exponentially in a cell-cycle-independent manner.

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