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Lambda phages carrying the R100 finO gene have been isolated from an R100::“ cointegrate in which λ was inserted into the R100 traD gene at kb coordinate 72.1. Physical analyses of these phages place the finO gene within R100 SalI fragment D, near kb coordinate 82.0. Analysis of proteins synthesized by the phages did not identify the finO gene product, although a constitutive protein of m.w. 30,100 was encoded by R100 DNA between kb coordinates 78.7 and 81.2.
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Dempsey, W.B., McIntire, S.A. The finO gene of antibiotic resistance plasmid R100. Mol Gen Genet 190, 444–451 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00331075
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