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. 1973 Jan;113(1):508–509. doi: 10.1128/jb.113.1.508-509.1973

Isolation of Covalently Closed Circular Deoxyribonucleic Acid from Bacteria Which Produce Exocellular Nuclease

Kenneth Timmis a,1, Ulrich Winkler a
PMCID: PMC251656  PMID: 4569698

Abstract

Reproducible yields of covalently closed circular (plasmid) deoxyribonucleic acid were obtained from mutants defective for extracellular nuclease but not from the corresponding wild-type strain of Serratia marcescens

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