THE ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF AN OPERATOR CONSTITUTIVE MUTATION IN THE RECA GENE OF ESCHERICHIA COLI K-12.
The lexA protein in E. coli is a specific repressor of the recA gene. The lexA protein is cleaved by the recA protein in response to DNA damage. Cleavage derepresses the recA gene resulting in high level synthesis of recA protein and the expression of other DNA damage inducible functions (SOS functi...
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The University of Arizona.
1982
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/143032 |