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. 1973 Feb;113(2):1066–1069. doi: 10.1128/jb.113.2.1066-1069.1973

Initiation and Termination of Bacterial Deoxyribonucleic Acid Replication in Low Concentrations of Chloramphenicol

Karl G Lark 1
PMCID: PMC285329  PMID: 4570592

Abstract

Escherichia coli 15T can initiate a cycle of deoxyribonucleic acid replication with equal efficiency in the presence of 25 or 50 μg of chloramphenicol/ml. However, these replication cycles are not completed in the presence of these drug concentrations, and the amount of replication decreases with increasing drug concentration.

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