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Catabolite Sensitive Site of the lac Operon

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A partial deletion in the lac p region makes the lac operon insensitive to catabolite repression.

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SILVERSTONE, A., MAGASANIK, B., REZNIKOFF, W. et al. Catabolite Sensitive Site of the lac Operon. Nature 221, 1012–1014 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2211012b0

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