Confirmation of the Fur operator site by insertion of a synthetic oligonucleotide into an operon fusion plasmid.

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Published in J Bacteriol on February 01, 1988

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S B Calderwood1, J J Mekalanos

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1: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.

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