Overproduction and purification of the luxR gene product: Transcriptional activator of the Vibrio fischeri luminescence system.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on October 01, 1987

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H B Kaplan1, E P Greenberg

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1: Department of Microbiology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.

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