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Direction of Transcription of a Regulatory Gene in E. coli

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The i gene, which codes for the lac repressor, is transcribed in the same direction as the structural genes (z, y, a) of the lac operon.

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  1. Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

    JEFFREY H. MILLER & JON BECKWITH

  2. Institute of Genetics, University of Cologne,

    BENNO MULLER-HILL

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MILLER, J., BECKWITH, J. & MULLER-HILL, B. Direction of Transcription of a Regulatory Gene in E. coli. Nature 220, 1287–1290 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2201287a0

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