How Cro and lambda-repressor distinguish between operators: the structural basis underlying a genetic switch.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on March 31, 1998

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R A Albright1, B W Matthews

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1: Institute of Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA.

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