Plasmids 101: Stringent Regulation of Replication
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... restraining further replication.
Figure 3: Comparison of replication regulation mechanisms of... negative regulators.
The genome of E. coli is about 4.6 million base pairs long and contains a single...copy number and compensating for the additional metabolic cost imposed on the host with a beneficial function.... On the other hand, they also impose a lower metabolic cost on cells and produce lower amounts of protein...