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Sex Pili and the Classification of Sex Factors in the Enterobacteriaceae

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The properties of sex pili determined by different plasmids of the Enterobacteriaceae suggest that there may be only two major classes of sex factor, typified by F and the factor of colicin factor lb.

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  1. Department of Electron Microscopy, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London, SW1

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  2. MRC Microbial Genetics Research Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, Ducane Road, London, W12

    ELINOR MEYNELL

  3. Guinness-Lister Research Unit, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London, SW1

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  4. Department of Bacteriology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Ducane Road, London, W12

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LAWN, A., MEYNELL, E., MEYNELL, G. et al. Sex Pili and the Classification of Sex Factors in the Enterobacteriaceae. Nature 216, 343–346 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216343a0

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