Abstract
The maintenance requirements of a Proteus plasmid, P-lac, in Escherichia coli have been investigated. P-lac could not be inherited by recB and polA1 mutants, and it requires a functional recC gene for maintenance. P-lac replication was inhibited by chloramphenicol.
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