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THE transcription of the late genes of phage T7 depends on the function of gene 1 of the phage1. Chamberlin et al.2 have separated the gene 1 product from the host enzyme in Escherichia coli and have shown that gene 1 codes for an entirely new RNA polymerase whioii transcribes T7 DNA efficiently and exclusively compared with other templates. Summers and Siegel3 have shown that this enzyme transcribes the late region of the T7 genome.
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DUNN, J., BAUTZ, F. & BAUTZ, E. Different Template Specificities of Phage T3 and T7 RNA Polymerases. Nature New Biology 230, 94–96 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio230094a0
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