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. 1982 Nov 25;10(22):7373–7385. doi: 10.1093/nar/10.22.7373

The nucleotide sequence of the dnaA gene and the first part of the dnaN gene of Escherichia coli K-12.

E B Hansen, F G Hansen, K von Meyenburg
PMCID: PMC327010  PMID: 6296774

Abstract

The nucleotide sequence of the dnaA gene and the first 10% of the dnaN gene was determined. From the nucleotide sequence the amino acid sequence of the dnaA gene product was derived. It is a basic protein of 467 amino acid residues with a molecular weight of 52.5 kD. The expression of the dnaA gene is in the counterclockwise direction like the one of the dnaN gene, for which potential startsites were found.

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