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chpA and chpB, Escherichia coli chromosomal homologs of the pem locus responsible for stable maintenance of plasmid R100.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Nov 1993
Masuda Y, Miyakawa K, Nishimura Y, Ohtsubo E
Abstract excerpt
The pem locus is responsible for stable maintenance of plasmid R100 and consists of two genes, pemI and pemK. The pemK gene product is a growth inhibitor, while the pemI gene product is a suppressor of this inhibitory function. We found that the PemI amino acid sequence is homologous to two open reading frames from Escherichia coli called mazE and orf-83, which are located at 60 and 100 min on the chromosome,...
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