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A novel illegitimate recombination event: precise excision and reintegration with the Mu gem mutant prophage.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Aug 1994
Ghelardini P, Liébart J C, Di Zenzo G, Micheli G, D'Ari R, Paolozzi L
Abstract excerpt
The bacteriophage Mu is known to insert its DNA more or less randomly within the Escherichia coli chromosome, as do transposable elements, but unlike the latter, precise excision of the prophage, thereby restoring the original sequence, is not observed with wild-type Mu, although it has been reported with certain defective mutants. We show here that the mutant prophage Mu gem2ts can excise precisely from at least...
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