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Science 2 August 1968:
Vol. 161. no. 3840, pp. 478 - 479
DOI: 10.1126/science.161.3840.478
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Escherichia coli: High Resistance or Dependence on Streptomycin Produced by the Same Allele

Lucio Luzzatto 1, David Schlessinger 1, and David Apirion 1

1 Department of Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110

Mutations to streptomycin resistance in Escherichia coli K12, when transferred to a C strain, can confer dependence on streptomycin. These alternatives in expression of the allele are probably a result of interaction between two ribosomal proteins.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Approaches to the Genetics of Escherichia coli Ribosomes.
D. Apirion, S. L. Phillips, and D. Schlessinger (1969)
Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 34, 117-128
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