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THE results of several studies suggest that the feedback-sensitive polypeptide specified by the operator-proximal gene of a biosynthetic operon is involved in repression1–6. To determine whether the product of the most operator-proximal gene of the tryptophan operon of E. coli is involved in regulation we have isolated a deletion mutant in which almost the entire gene is deleted, and have examined this mutant's regulatory properties.
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HIRAGA, S., YANOFSKY, C. Normal Repression in a Deletion Mutant Lacking Almost the Entire Operator-Proximal Gene of the Tryptophan Operon of E. coli. Nature New Biology 237, 47–49 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio237047a0
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