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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

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DNA, BacterialDNA, Circularextrachromosomal DNA

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Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
In Silico Detection and Typing of Plasmids using PlasmidFinder and Plasmid Multilocus Sequence Typing
ABSTRACT In the work presented here, we designed and developed two easy-to-use Web tools for in silico detection and… 
Review
2010
Review
2010
Mobility of Plasmids
SUMMARY Plasmids are key vectors of horizontal gene transfer and essential genetic engineering tools. They code for genes… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Designer deletion strains derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae S288C: A useful set of strains and plasmids for PCR‐mediated gene disruption and other applications
A set of yeast strains based on Saccharomyces cerevisiae S288C in which commonly used selectable marker genes are deleted by… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Tumor suppressor p53 is a direct transcriptional activator of the human bax gene
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Efficient in vitro synthesis of biologically active RNA and RNA hybridization probes from plasmids containing a bacteriophage SP6 promoter.
A simple and efficient method for synthesizing pure single stranded RNAs of virtually any structure is described. This in vitro… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Studies on transformation of Escherichia coli with plasmids.
  • D. Hanahan
  • Journal of molecular biology
  • 1983
  • Corpus ID: 31260714
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
A Broad Host Range Mobilization System for In Vivo Genetic Engineering: Transposon Mutagenesis in Gram Negative Bacteria
We have developed a new vector strategy for the insertion of foreign genes into the genomes of gram negative bacteria not closely… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
The pUC plasmids, an M13mp7-derived system for insertion mutagenesis and sequencing with synthetic universal primers.
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Construction and characterization of new cloning vehicles. II. A multipurpose cloning system.
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Construction of biologically functional bacterial plasmids in vitro.
The construction of new plasmid DNA species by in vitro joining of restriction endonuclease-generated fragments of separate… 
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