A novel suicide vector and its use in construction of insertion mutations: osmoregulation of outer membrane proteins and virulence determinants in Vibrio cholerae requires toxR.

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Published in J Bacteriol on June 01, 1988

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V L Miller1, J J Mekalanos

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

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