(1) Departamento de Biologia Geral, UFMG, Caixa Postal 2486, Belo Horizonte, 31270, MG, Brazil;(2) Departamento de Biologia Celular, UnB, 70000 Brasília, DF, Brazil
Abstract:
Summary Mercury resistant transformant clone ofEscherichia coli 5K bearing the recombinant mini-plasmid pHg (13 MDa) was obtained after treatment of the conjugative 60 MDa R plasmid pBH100
(from wild strainE. coli) withPstI followed by fragment ligation (ligase).