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We found that large, non-circular forms of the chromosome accumulate in varying amounts in various recombination-defective mutants of Escherichia coli .
Whatever the reason, we chose to use the rich medium in which the rec +strain produce less linear forms, because the background is clear and may allow sensitive detection of their increase in a survey of various recombination-defective mutants.
The other recombination-defective mutants, in otherwise rec +background, did not accumulate the huge linears probably because the DNA was degraded by active RecBCD enzyme or was not produced.
In this work, we employed the pulsed-field gel electrophoresis procedure to measure large non-circular forms of the chromosome obtained from various recombination-defective mutants in rec +, recBC sbcA , and recBC sbcBC genetic backgrounds.