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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Microbiol. 2016 Jun 10;101(4):625–644. doi: 10.1111/mmi.13414

Table 2.

par-mediated plasmid stabilization

Plasmid Reporter par locus Plasmid retention (%)1
pLO87 hsp60-mCherry None <1
pMO01 hsp60-mCherry parSL-parA-parB-parSR 822
pMO02 hsp60-mCherry parSL-     -parB-parSR 7
pMO05 hsp60-mCherry parSL-parA-parB 712
pMO20 None None 873
pMO21 None parSL-parA-parB-parSR 1003
1

Plasmid retention determined by percentages of red (pLO87, pMO01, pMO02, pMO05) or kanamycin-resistant (pMO20, pMO21) colonies after 52 generations of unselected growth.

2

Difference in pMO01 and pMO05 retention levels is not significant (p-value 0.25).

3

Difference in pMO20 and pMO21 retention is statistically significant (p-value 0.002).