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A set of restriction fragments cloned into phage λ vectors has allowed us to locate a site necessary for full rpoBC expression. We find that these genes for the two large subunits of RNA polymerase and the genes, rplL and rplJ, for two ribosomal proteins, form a single operon.
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Linn, T., Scaife, J. Identification of a single promoter in E. coli for rplJ, rplL and rpoBC. Nature 276, 33–37 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/276033a0
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