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. 1997 Mar;179(6):2089–2091. doi: 10.1128/jb.179.6.2089-2091.1997

A suppressor of mutations in the region adjacent to iterons of pSC101 ori.

S Ohkubo 1, K Yamaguchi 1
PMCID: PMC178940  PMID: 9068662

Abstract

Some single-base changes in a 14-bp region (the downstream region) adjacent to three repeated sequences (iterons) in pSC101 ori are very deleterious for replication. We isolated a host suppressor mutation for one of these mutations and found that the suppressor suppressed all the mutations tested in the downstream region. The nucleotide sequence of the suppressor revealed that the suppressor gene was identical to dksA, which encodes a multicopy suppressor of the heat shock gene dnaK.

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