Recombination Between Repeated DNA Sequences Occurs More Often in Plasmids Than in the Chromosome of Bacillus Subtilis

Overview

Journal Mol Gen Genet

Specialties Genetics
Molecular Biology

Date 1984 Jan 1

PMID 6439976

Citations 17

Authors

B Niaudet

L Janniere

S D Ehrlich

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Abstract

Directly repeated pBR322 sequences 3.7-3.8 kb long recombine with a frequency of about 10% per generation when carried on plasmids related to pC194 and 0.01% per generation when carried on the Bacillus subtilis chromosome. Recombination is therefore 1,000 times more efficient in plasmids than in the chromosome of this organism.

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