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Characterization of the two Mycobacterium tuberculosis recA promoters.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Oct 2003
Gopaul Krishna K, Brooks Patricia C, Prost Jean-François, Davis Elaine O
Abstract excerpt
The recA gene of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is unusual in that it is expressed from two promoters, one of which, P1, is DNA damage inducible independently of LexA and RecA, while the other, P2, is regulated by LexA in the classical way (E. O. Davis, B. Springer, K. K. Gopaul, K. G. Papavinasasundaram, P. Sander, and E. C. Böttger, Mol. Microbiol. 46:791-800, 2002). In this study we characterized these two...
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