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A partial deletion map of the galactose operon in E. coli K12

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

John Davison ,
Robin Frame  and
John Bishop
John Davison
Affiliation:
Institute of Animal Genetics, King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh
Robin Frame
Affiliation:
Institute of Animal Genetics, King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh
John Bishop
Affiliation:
Institute of Animal Genetics, King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh
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We have isolated a number of λ dg HFT lysates which carry proximal fragments of the galactose operon. Most of these have been shown to be different, and each terminates in either the kinase or transferase cistron. They divide the kinase cistron genetically into seven blocks of mutants, and the transferase into eight.

When a λ dg is used to transduce a bacterium which carries a mutation in a cistron which is intact in the λ dg the transduction frequency is high in the presence of λ-helper. This is attributed to integration of the transducing fragment at the λ-attachment site and complementation between the two operons in the heterogenote. When the same λ dg transduces a mutation lying in the cistron in which the λ dg terminates, so that recombination within the galactose operon is obligatory, the transduction frequency is 10 to 1000 times less.

In such cases there is a general increase in transduction frequency between distal mutations (i.e. those lying near the termination of the deletion) and proximal mutations, but the relationship does not hold for many individual pairs of mutants, probably due to physiological differences between the bacterial strains.

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Research Article
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Genetics Research , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , August 1967 , pp. 107 - 116
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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