Abstract
During the past year two represser molecules were detected, purified and some of their properties determined. The results confirm much of the theory, proposed by Jacob and Monod in 1961, for the control of gene function.
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BRETSCHER, M. How Repressor Molecules Function. Nature 217, 509–511 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217509a0
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