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Identification of two copies of the gene for the elongation factor EF–Tu in E. Coli

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Two copies of the structural gene for the elongation factor EF-Tu have been identified in Escherichia coli: one near rif and the other near str. The latter seems to belong to a single transcriptional unit together with the genes for ribosomal protein S7, S12 (str) and the elongation factor EF-G (fus).

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    S. Richard Jaskunas, Lasse Lindahl & Masayasu Nomura

  2. McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706

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Jaskunas, S., Lindahl, L., Nomura, M. et al. Identification of two copies of the gene for the elongation factor EF–Tu in E. Coli. Nature 257, 458–462 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/257458a0

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