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. 1973 Nov;116(2):1062–1063. doi: 10.1128/jb.116.2.1062-1063.1973

Deletion Map of the Chloramphenicol Resistance Region of R1 and R100-1

T J Foster a,1, T G B Howe a
PMCID: PMC285493  PMID: 4583232

Abstract

Recombination between single-site and multisite chloramphenicol-sensitive mutants of the F-like R factors R1 and R100-1 indicates that the chloramphenicol resistance region is a single structural gene coding for the 20,000-molecular weight subunit of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase.

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