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Nitrate reductase and cytochrome bnitrate reductase structural genes as parts of the nitrate reductase operon

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The existence of a nitrate-reductase operon in the tryptophane region was deduced from the effects of prophage insertion in each of chl I and chl C genes and from transposition of the Mu-mediated host DNA fragments on F-prime. This operon appears to be polarized from chlC to chlI and the gene order in the region is trp-chlI-chlC-purB.

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  1. Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, CNRS, 31, Chemin Joseph Aiguier, B.P. 71, F-13277, Marseille Cedex 2, France

    Violaine Bonnefoy-Orth, Michèle Lepelletier, Marie-Claire Pascal & Marc Chippaux

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Bonnefoy-Orth, V., Lepelletier, M., Pascal, MC. et al. Nitrate reductase and cytochrome bnitrate reductase structural genes as parts of the nitrate reductase operon. Molec. Gen. Genet. 181, 535–540 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00428749

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