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. 1977 Oct;12(4):555–556. doi: 10.1128/aac.12.4.555

Cyclic Thymineless Death Significantly Increases Frequency of R-Plasmid Elimination

M J Tribe 1, R J Pinney 1
PMCID: PMC429968  PMID: 335962

Abstract

Thymine starvation of Escherichia coli strain C600 thy (R46) eliminated the R plasmid at a frequency of 17%. This was increased fourfold, to 68%, after the same culture was subjected to an additional three cycles of growth followed by thymineless death.

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