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glnE is an essential gene in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Oct 2000
Parish T, Stoker N G
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium tuberculosis possesses a homologue of glnE, potentially encoding a regulator of glutamine synthetase activity. We attempted to construct glnE-disrupted mutants using a two-step strategy, whereby a single-crossover strain was first isolated, followed by sacB counterselection to isolate the double-crossover strain. Of 192 sucrose-resistant colonies tested, none were mutants, although the wild-type...
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