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On the mechanism of conjugation in Escherichia coli K12

III. Synthesis of DNA in the course of bacterial conjugation

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    The conjugational synthesis of DNA takes place equally in the donor and in the recipient cell.

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    The thermosensitive mutation T266 prohibits vegetative DNA replication but has no injluence on conjugational DNA synthesis.

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    The thermosensitive mutation T43 prohibits vegetative DNA replication and affects the conjugational DNA synthesis in the recipient cell only.

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  1. Physico-technical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad

    S. E. Bresler, V. A. Lanzov & V. T. Likhachev

  2. Institute of High Molecular Weight Compounds of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 199164, Leningrad, USSR

    S. E. Bresler & V. A. Lanzov

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Bresler, S.E., Lanzov, V.A. & Likhachev, V.T. On the mechanism of conjugation in Escherichia coli K12. Molec. Gen. Genet. 120, 125–131 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00267240

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