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From: bchso@uhnix2.UUCP (Dan Davison)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Divergent promoters in prokaryotes -- seeking advice
Message-ID: <403@uhnix2.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Jun-87 23:21:35 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 19 23:21:35 1987
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Reply-To: bchso@uhnix2.UUCP (Dan Davison)
Organization: University of Houston
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Keywords: Transcription initiation; co-regulation; RNA polymerase

In article <1136@aecom.YU.EDU> diaz@aecom.YU.EDU (Dizzy Dan) writes:
>I was wondering if anyone knows of any other examples of well
>characterized prokaryotic divergent promoters, so that I can pick up
>some clues from the work of others. 

The classic work in the Salmonella arabinose operon might be worth
looking at.  I wish I could supply references, but I'm packing to move and
all the boxes of references look the same.  If my memory serves (and it 
might not) it was in the Journal of Bacteriology in the late 1960s-early
1970s.

dr. dan davison Theoretical Biology Los Alamos National Lab T-10 MS K-710
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