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Plasmids

Known as: Plasmid, Plasmid DNA, pDNA 
Extrachromosomal, usually CIRCULAR DNA molecules that are self-replicating and transferable from one organism to another. They are found in a variety… 
National Institutes of Health

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Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium TerminologyDNA Transposable ElementsEpisomesExtrachromosomal Inheritance

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CosmidsF FactorR Factors

Broader (3)

DNA, BacterialDNA, Circularextrachromosomal DNA

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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
RNA interference may be more potent than antisense RNA in human cancer cell lines
1. RNA interference (RNAi) is a newly discovered cellular pathway for the silencing of sequence‐specific genes at the mRNA level… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
A concentrated and stable aerosol formulation of cationic lipid:DNA complexes giving high-level gene expression in mouse lung.
Advances in gene therapy vectors and techniques hold promise for treatment of many inherited and acquired diseases. For lung… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Insulin induction of ornithine decarboxylase. Importance of mRNA secondary structure and phosphorylation of eucaryotic initiation factors eIF-4B and eIF-4E.
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Intramolecular DNA triplexes, bent DNA and DNA unwinding elements in the initiation region of an amplified dihydrofolate reductase replicon.
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Cloning vectors that yield high levels of single-stranded DNA for rapid DNA sequencing.
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Cloning of the human cytomegalovirus genome as endonuclease XbaI fragments.
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Construction and identification of cDNA clones for mouse ribosomal proteins: application for the study of r-protein gene expression.
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Physical map of two D. melanogaster DNA segments containing sequences coding for the 70,000 dalton heat shock protein
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Bacillus subtilis as a host for molecular cloning.
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Substrate induction of conjugative activity of Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ti plasmids
CONJUGATIVE plasmids of bacteria are extrachromosomal genetic elements able to bring about DNA transfer by conjugation. The best… 
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