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. 1980 Sep;143(3):1534–1537. doi: 10.1128/jb.143.3.1534-1537.1980

Lactose operon transcription from wild-type and L8-UV5 lac promoters in Escherichia coli treated with chloramphenicol.

B J Hirschel, V Shen, D Schlessinger
PMCID: PMC294553  PMID: 6157675

Abstract

In cells treated with chloramphenicol and the inducer isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalacto-pyranoside, messenger ribonucleic acid transcription from the wild-type lac promoter was not detected. Transcription occurred from the mutant UV5-L8 promoter. The transcripts were of variable length; some included the whole Z gene. No major site of transcription arrest within the Z gene was apparent.

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