Escherichia coli

Escherichia coli
T. Escherich, 1885
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Escherichia coli, usually abbreviated to E.
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Escherichia coli (usually abbreviated to E. coli) is one of the main species of bacteria that live in the lower intestines of warm-blooded animals (including birds and mammals) and are necessary for the ...
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Escherichia coli. The most thoroughly-studied of all creatures (possibly excepting ourselves). Its entire genome has been determined down to the last nucleotide: 4,639,221 base pairs of DNA encoding 4,377 genes.
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Escherichia coli
: A gram-negative bacterium whose genome has been sequenced in its entirety. It is model organisms for the study of the prokaryotes.
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In Escherichia coli, a cell having a free fertility factor; a male cell.
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coli (Escherichia coli): A common Gram-negative bacterium present in human intestinal tract that has been studied intensively by geneticists because of its small genome size, normal lack of pathogenicity, and ease of growth in the laboratory.
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Escherichia coli. A commensal bacterium inhabiting the human colon that is widely used in biology, both as a simple model of cell biochemical function and as a host for molecular cloning experiments. Ethidium bromide.
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coli (Escherichia coli) A common bacterium found in the small intestine of vertebrates; the most well-studied organism. electrochemical gradient The sum of the gradients of concentration and of electric charge of an ion across a membrane.
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Construction of large-insert libraries in bacterial hosts, such as those using PAC/BAC vectors and DH10B cells, has been limited by the inefficient transformation of Escherichia coli with large DNA molecules by electroporation.
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Our multi-dimensional NMR studies of a substrate-binding domain fragment (amino acids 387-552) from an Escherichia coli Hsp70, DnaK(387-552), have uncovered a pH-dependent conformational change, ...
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Escherichia coli, the usual bacteria in molecular genetics experiments, has a large circular genome, but it will also replicate smaller circular DNAs as long as they have an "origin of replication".
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Bacteriophage are a type of virus that attacks bacteria, the viruses that Delbruck and Luria worked with were those attacking Escherichia coli, a bacterium found in human intestines. Bacteriophages consist of protein coats covering DNA.
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T Phages: A phage which infects Escherichia coli. Viral parasites of this type are labeled T1 through T7. T2 was the first phage observed under the electron microscope.
Thymine: A nitrogenous base. Pairs with adenine in DNA molecules.
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A vector used to clone DNA fragments of 100 to 300 kb insert size (average of 150 kb) in Escherichia coli cells. Based on the naturally occurring F-factor plasmid found in the bacterium Escherichia coli.
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For the bacterium Escherichia coli, the image would be 80 kilometers long. And for a typical piece of DNA from a eukaryote cell, the image would stretch for 1600 kilometers, about as far as it is from Dallas to Washington, D. C.! ...
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Coliphage
A phage that infects Escherichia coli.
Colony
A visible group of cells arising from a single cell plated on solid medium.
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Begg, K. J. and W. D. Donachie. 1985. "Cell shape and division in Escherichia coli: Experiments with shape and division mutants." Journal of Bacteriology. 163: 615-622. [PubMed] ...
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And a lot of bacteria that cause disease have had their genome sequenced, like salmonella and Escherichia coli. And anthrax was another bacteria that causes disease, so it was important to get its genome sequence.
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