Claudia P.A. Alves is a research assistant at iBBâInstitute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Department of Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal.
Use of an E. coli pgi Knockout Strain as a Plasmid Producer
The authors describe the impact of the knocking of the pgi gene of the wild type MG1655 strain on the growth kinetics of plasmid-free and plasmid-bearing cells.