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Two repressors in bacteriophage lambda

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The functions of anti-immunity and immunity are very similar: both repress the early functions acting on the same two operators, o L and o R. They differ only in their effect on the expression of the cI gene.

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  1. Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, Charles University, Prague

    Mahulena Hampacherová, Eva Koutecká & Zdeněk Neubauer

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  1. Mahulena Hampacherová
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Hampacherová, M., Koutecká, E. & Neubauer, Z. Two repressors in bacteriophage lambda. Molec. Gen. Genet. 120, 133–137 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00267241

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