Plasmids 101: Stringent Regulation of Replication
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Blog Post
Published
June 20, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
...contribute to this regulation in different ways: methylating newly synthesized DNA, blocking binding sites...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...