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      Insertion sequence IS2 associated with int-constitutive mutants of bacteriophage lambda.

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      Coliphages, genetics, Escherichia coli, Genes, Viral, Genetic Linkage, Lysogeny, Mutation, Peptide Termination Factors, Transcription, Genetic

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          We have examined mutations in bacteriophage lambda called int-c, which confer elevated constitutive expression on the int gene for prophage integration. One class of mutations, which map between the b538 and bio386 endpoints, does not appear to be associated with any major chromosomal modification, whereas the second class has the IS2 insertion sequence in orientation II within the region between gene int and the b538 endpoint, All int-c mutations are within gene xis, with the possible exception of int-c548, which might be located between int and xis. The present data are most consistent with the following notion: (1) the point mutations of class one inactivate the tI terminator signal of the pI-tI leader RNA for gene int and thus render int expression independent of the antiterminating action of the cII and cIII products, and (2) the second class of int-c mutants is constitutive for Int because the IS2 insertion, when strategically located between int and tI, provides a new constitutive promoter for int transciption.

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