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Revertants of double Opal-mutants of bacteriophage T4

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Revertants of double opal-mutants of bacteriophage T4 have been obtained. The properties of these revertants suggest that reversion of double opal-mutants is effected by the activity of some genesuppressor appeared in the phage genome. Restriction of these revertants by streptomycin-resistant bacterial strains shows that the suppression of the opal-mutants is realized at translation.

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  1. Institute of Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms, 113545, Moscow, USSR

    V. N. Pozdnlakov & A. N. Maisurian

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Pozdnlakov, V.N., Maisurian, A.N. Revertants of double Opal-mutants of bacteriophage T4. Molec. Gen. Genet. 149, 357–358 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00268538

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