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. 1987 Nov;61(11):3621–3624. doi: 10.1128/jvi.61.11.3621-3624.1987

Fusions of bacteriophage P22 late genes to the Escherichia coli lacZ gene.

P D Riggs 1, D Botstein 1
PMCID: PMC255965  PMID: 2822967

Abstract

The late genes of bacteriophage P22 were fused to lacZ to study their differential expression from the late operon transcript. No instances of posttranscriptional regulation were uncovered, thus supporting the model that the late genes are expressed, by and large, in fixed ratios based on their translational efficiency and message stability.

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