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The role of MOR and the CI operator sites on the genetic switch of the temperate bacteriophage TP901-1.
Journal of molecular biology - 19 Dec 2008
Pedersen Margit, Hammer Karin
Abstract excerpt
A genetic switch controls whether the temperate bacteriophage TP901-1 will enter a lytic or a lysogenic life cycle after infection of its host, Lactococcus lactis. We studied this bistable switch encoded in a small DNA fragment of 979 bp by fusing it to a reporter gene on a low-copy-number plasmid. The cloned DNA fragment contained the two divergently oriented promoters, P(R) and P(L), transcribing the lysogenic...
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