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Two coliphage repressers were originally isolated as monomeric proteins. Here it is shown that these repressers attach to DNA in the form of oligomers, possibly as tetramers, and that these oligomers are in rapid equilibrium with the monomers.
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PIRROTTA, V., CHADWICK, P. & PTASHNE, M. Active Form of Two Coliphage Repressors. Nature 227, 41–44 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/227041a0
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