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Streamlined Purification of Plasmid DNA From Prokaryotic Cultures
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Rapid, economical filter alternative to chromosomal DNA centrifugation in the alkaline lysis plasmid protocol
1Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226. mtm@mcw.edu
Biotechniques
|July 17, 1999
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