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Mutations altering chromosomal protein H-NS induce mini-Mu transposition.
The New biologist - 1 Jun 1991
Falconi M, McGovern V, Gualerzi C, Hillyard D, Higgins N P
Abstract excerpt
Bacteriophage Mu is one of the most efficient transposons known, capable of moving a hundred viral copies to new positions in the bacterial chromosome in an hour. Mu also forms stable lysogens. In bacteria lysogenic for the defective protein fusion-forming phage MudII1681, which can transpose and replicate but does not encode genes for DNA packaging and cell lysis, the frequency of transposition changes as...
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