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The inability of type 2 viruses to confer a higher mutation rate than type 1 viruses in the non-HSV DNA mutagenesis assay is consistent with the absence of S1 nuclease hypersensitive sites in the LacZ gene fragment.
Although lipid-lowering therapy was associated with a significantly lower mortality when initiated early after an acute coronary syndrome in two large observational studies [ 6 7 ] , MIRACL was the first randomized trial to suggest that statins confer clinical benefits in this setting.
One type might be clones that carry M. tuberculosis genes that confer enhanced resistance to the antimicrobial processes of the macrophage.
Mutations that abolish ethylene binding in any of the five receptor genes are dominant and confer ethylene insensitivity, indicating that the receptors function as negative regulators of the ethylene pathway.
A Xho1/HindIII (blunt) cassette containing the Tn5 neomycin phosphotransferase ( Neo )gene, that could confer resistance to G418 and whose expression in mammalian cells was directed by a phosphoglycerate kinase-1 ( pgk) promoter, was introduced into an XbaI (blunt) site between the Hnf3α genomic sequences [ 16, 25].