Abstract
A combination of mutations in bacteriophage λ and its host Escherichia coli K-12 provides a convenient system for the isolation of large quantities of covalently closed circular DNA molecules. We describe two procedures for the large scale preparation of λ DNA in the duplex circular form.
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