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Author: Peter H Raven, George B Johnson Professor, Kenneth A. Mason Dr. Ph.D., Jonathan Losos Dr., Susan Singer
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Chapter 27, Problem 1S
E. coli lysogens derived from infection by phage λ can be induced to form progeny viruses by exposure to radiation. The inductive event is the destruction of a repressor protein that keeps the prophage genome unexpressed. What might be the normal role of the protein that recognizes and destroys the λ repressor?
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