Journal of Bacteriology, July 2001, p. 4382-4385, Vol. 183, No. 14
0021-9193/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.14.4382-4385.2001
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J. W. Wilson Laboratory, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912,1 and Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 021422
Received 17 November 2000/Accepted 16 April 2001
Spontaneous, erythromycin-resistant mutants of Thermus thermophilus IB-21 were isolated and found to carry the mutation A2058G in one of two 23S rRNA operons. The heterozygosity of these mutants indicates that A2058G confers a dominant or codominant phenotype in this organism. This mutation provides a valuable tool for the genetic manipulation of the 23S rRNA genes of Thermus.
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