Glutamine synthetase subunit mixing and regulation in Bacillus subtilis partial diploids.
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A specialized transducing phage, SP beta c2 dglnA2, of Bacillus subtilis was used to construct partial diploids with various glutamine auxotrophs. The overproduction of manganese-stimulated glutamine synthetase no longer occurred in the diploids. The kinetics of heat inactivation of the enzyme extracted from two diploids suggests that there was subunit mixing.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of bacteriology
دوره 149 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1982