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. 1999 Oct;181(20):6411–6418. doi: 10.1128/jb.181.20.6411-6418.1999

TABLE 3.

Effect of a mutation in either the strong or weak TyrR box on P2 repression

lacZ fusion β-Galactosidase sp act (U)a
tyrR366 Multicopy tyrR+
MM Phe Tyr
P2wt-lacZ control 110 20 (5.5) 3 (37) 3 (37)
P2wt-wb-lacZ (weak box mutation) 124 21 (6) 7 (18) 10 (13)
P2wt-sb-lacZ (strong box mutation) 114 78 (1.5) 69 (1.7) 66 (1.7)
a

Designations and parenthetical values are as described in Table 2, footnote a