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The Replication System of Plasmids from Bacillus subtilis Environmental Isolates

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Restriction enzyme analysis, cloning, and sequencing showed that large (more than 90 kb) plasmids isolated from different Bacillus subtilisstrains are identical in structure of the region ensuring stable inheritance of plasmid replicons and are widespread in Belarussian environmental strains of B. subtilis.

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  1. Belarussian State University, Minsk, 220050, Belarus

    A. V. Lagodich, Ya. V. Shtaniuk & M. A. Titok

  2. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia

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Lagodich, A.V., Shtaniuk, Y.V., Prozorov, A.A. et al. The Replication System of Plasmids from Bacillus subtilis Environmental Isolates. Molecular Biology 38, 366–369 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:MBIL.0000032206.23518.6e

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