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A temperature sensitive mutant of Bacillus subtilis with an altered elongation factor G is described. The mutation is highly co-transformable with resistance to fusidic acid.
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Communicated by E. Bautz
This work is part of a Ph. D. Thesis to be submitted to Tel Aviv University.
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Aharonowitz, Y., Ron, E.Z. A temperature sensitive mutant in Bacillus subtilis with an altered elongation factor G. Molec. Gen. Genet. 119, 131–138 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00269132
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