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Minicells as a Damage Disposal Mechanism in Escherichia coli

Many bacteria produce small, spherical minicells that lack chromosomal DNA and therefore are unable to proliferate. Although minicells have been used extensively by researchers as a molecular tool, nothing is known about why bacteria produce them. Here, we show that minicells help Escherichia coli c...

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Autores principales: Rang, Camilla U., Proenca, Audrey, Buetz, Christen, Shi, Chao, Chao, Lin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6147132/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30232168
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00428-18