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Promoter-creating mutations in Pseudomonas putida: a model system for the study of mutation in starving bacteria.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Apr 1997
Kasak L, Hõrak R, Kivisaar M
Abstract excerpt
A novel experimental system to study mutation in starving bacteria was designed, relying on the activation of a promoterless phenol degradation operon of Pseudomonas putida. The Phe+ (phenol-utilizing) mutants accumulated in the starving culture of P. putida in the presence of phenol but not in the absence of it. We ruled out the possibility that the absence of phenol eliminates Phe+ mutants from the starving...
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