Elimination of Plasmids from Several Bacterial Species by Novobiocin
- 1 September 1977
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
- Vol. 12 (3) , 423-426
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.12.3.423
Abstract
Certain plasmids can be eliminated by exposure to growth-inhibiting concentrations of novobiocin. Novobiocin cured 8 of 14 plasmids (13 R-plasmids and an F′ lac ) among one or another of four different bacterial hosts.Keywords
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