The mutation that makes Escherichia coli resistant to lambda P gene-mediated host lethality is located within the DNA initiator Gene dnaA of the bacterium.

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Earlier, we reported that the bacteriophage lambda P gene product is lethal to Escherichia coli, and the E. coli rpl mutants are resistant to this lambda P gene-mediated lethality. In this paper, we show that under the lambda P gene-mediated lethal condition, the host DNA synthesis is inhibited at the initiation step. The rpl8 mutation maps around the 83 min position in the E. coli chromosome and is 94 % linked...

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