Evidence for premature termination of transcription of the tryptophan operon in polarity mutants of Escherichia coli
Imamoto, F.
Nature 228(5268): 232-235
1970
ISSN/ISBN: 0028-0836 PMID: 4920918 DOI: 10.1038/228232a0
Accession: 071736063
The polarity of mutations in the tryptophan operon of E. coli may be caused not by an accelerated degradation of untranslated messenger operator–distal to the nonsense codon but by premature termination of transcription at or near the site of mutation and by restriction of Rna polymerase movement beyond it.
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