recA operator mutations and their usefulness.

doi:10.1016/s0300-9084(82)80108-9

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recA operator mutations and their usefulness.

Biochimie - 1 Jan 2000

Clark A J

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Mutations at three positions in the operator for recA have been detected, cloned and sequenced. Derepressed amounts of recA protein vary over a forty-fold range and correlate well with reduced affinities for lexA repressor of the mutant operators. One mutant confirms the region of major groove in...

Topics

Bacterial Proteins
Base Sequence
Cloning, Molecular
DNA Restriction Enzymes
Escherichia coli
Genes
Genotype
Mutation
Operon
Plasmids
Rec A Recombinases

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