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Kinetic analysis of induction of recA protein synthesis after U.V. irradiation does not show correspondence with the kinetics of division inhibition in lon + and lon - strains, but there is correlation between induction and DNA repair activity. Protein X is stable and identical in both lon + and lon - strains. When the induction of recA protein after U.V. is drastically reduced by rifampicin treatment, no effect on the kinetics of division inhibition is observed.
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Darby, V., Holland, I.B. A kinetic analysis of cell division, and induction and stability of recA protein in U.V. irradiated lon + and lon-strains of Escherichia coli K12. Molec. Gen. Genet. 176, 121–128 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00334303
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