DNA sequence and transcriptional organization of essential cell division genes ftsQ and ftsA of Escherichia coli: evidence for overlapping transcriptional units.

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Published in J Bacteriol on November 01, 1984

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A C Robinson, D J Kenan, G F Hatfull, N F Sullivan, R Spiegelberg, W D Donachie

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