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The regulatory nature of the phoB gene for alkaline phosphatase synthesis in Escherichia coli

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Quantitative measurements of alkaline phosphatase activity in various merozygotic combinations and electrophoretic analyses of periplasmic proteins derepressed by phosphate-starvation show that phoB is a positive regulatory gene.

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  1. The Department of Biochemistry, The George S. Wise Center for Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

    Ezra Yagil, Moshe Bracha & Yael Lifshitz

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Yagil, E., Bracha, M. & Lifshitz, Y. The regulatory nature of the phoB gene for alkaline phosphatase synthesis in Escherichia coli . Molec. gen. Genet. 137, 11–16 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00332537

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