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        | "Cloning of the exonuclease III gene of Escherichia coli." |  
        | Rogers SG, Weiss B |  
 Published Nov. 1, 1980
  
    in Gene
    
      volume 11
    
  
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 Pubmed ID:
  6260569
 
 Abstract:
 
 
    
      | Overproducers of exonuclease III (exo III) were found within a colony bank containing ColE1-Escherichia coli hybrid plasmids. Through the enzymatic ligation of restriction enzyme fragments, the exo III gene, xth, was transferred to a thermoinducible, integration-proficient lambda phage and to a chimeric ColE1-lambda plasmid that was thermoinducible for lambda-directed DNA replication. Transfer of the xth gene was facilitated by a technique involving prior selection for Tn5 insertions into plasmid, thereby linking the gene to additional restriction sites and to a selectable (drug resistance) marker. After heat induction, cells bearing the thermoinducible ColE1-lambda-xth plasmid produced 120-fold more exo III than did plasmid-free cells. Enzyme production was not further enhanced by any of the following chromosomal mutations: dnaA, recBC, tob, or nusA snu. Several observations suggested that enzyme over-synthesis was the result primarily of lambda-detected replication rather than lambda-directed transcription. |  
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