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Cell growth and lambda phage development controlled by the same essential Escherichia coli gene, ftsH/hflB.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Nov 1993
Herman C, Ogura T, Tomoyasu T, Hiraga S, Akiyama Y, Ito K, Thomas R, D'Ari R, Bouloc P
Abstract excerpt
The lambda phage choice between lysis and lysogeny is influenced by certain host functions in Escherichia coli. We found that the frequency of lambda lysogenization is markedly increased in the ftsH1 temperature-sensitive mutant. The ftsH gene, previously shown to code for an essential inner membrane protein with putative ATPase activity, is identical to hflB, a gene involved in the stability of the phage cII...
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