Mutations altering heat shock specific subunit of RNA polymerase suppress major cellular defects of E. coli mutants lacking the DnaK chaperone.

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Published in EMBO J on December 01, 1990

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B Bukau1, G C Walker

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1: Biology Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139.

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