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Glucose and its close metabolic derivatives were compared for their effectiveness in bringing about catabolite repression inEscherichia coli. The findings indicate that catabolite repression is established most rapidly when glucose-6-phosphate serves as source of carbon; they also demonstrate that regulation by catabolite repression is exerted at the level of transcription.
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Dedicated to Academician Ivan Málek on the occasion of his 60th birthday
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Janecek, J., Rickenberg, H.V. The kinetics of catabolite repression inEscherichia coli . Folia Microbiol 14, 285–290 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02872693
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