Nature 217, 825 - 827 (02 March 1968); doi:10.1038/217825a0

New Controlling Element in the Lac Operon of E. coli

KARIN IPPEN^*, JEFFREY H. MILLER, JOHN SCAIFE^† & JONATHAN BECKWITH

Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
^*Harold C. Ernst Research Fellow.
^†On leave from MRC Microbial Genetics Research Unit, London.

The lac promoter maps between the represser i gene and the operator o gene, so that the operator gene is probably transcribed.

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