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The relation of resistance transfer factors to the F-factor (sex-factor) ofEscherichia coli K12

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 April 2009

Elinor Meynell
Affiliation:
M.R.C. Microbial Genetics Research Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London, W.12
Naomi Datta
Affiliation:
Postgraduate Medical School, Ducane Road, London, W.12
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The genetic elements promoting conjugation associated with transmissible drug resistance are of two or more kinds. Experiments with phage specific for F+ bacteria have shown that one large class differs from F essentially only in the production of a cytoplasmic repressor which limits the synthesis of the specific F pilus, whether by the RTF itself or by F when this is present in the same cell.

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