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The replication of the bacteriocinogenic factor Clo DF13 was studied in Escherichia coli mutants which lack either DNA polymerase I (polA1 and resA1 mutants), DNA polymerase II (polB1 mutant) or DNA polymerase III (dnaE mutant). DNA polymerase I is required for Clo DF13 replication. The Clo DF13 factor, however, can be maintained in a strain carrying the polA107 mutation and thus lacking the 5′→3′ exonucleolytic activity of DNA polymerase I. DNA polymerase II is not required for transfer replication and maintenance of the Clo DF13 plasmid. In the temperature sensitive dnaE mutant, Clo DF13 can replicate at the nonpermissive temperature during the first two hours after the temperature shift from 30°C to 43°C. During this period DNA polymerase III seems not to be essential for Clo DF13 replication.
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Veltkamp, E., Nijkamp, H.J.J. The role of DNA polymerase I, II and III in the replication of the bacteriocinogenic factor Clo DF13. Molec. Gen. Genet. 125, 329–340 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00276588
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