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SUMMARY: Four arginine auxotrophs have been obtained in 12 following treatment with the acridine half-mustard ICR 191. Their properties show that they carry mutations in the gene of the cluster, and their reversion patterns indicate that these mutations are frameshifts. The mutations exert no polar effect on the expression of the and genes. These results accord with earlier suggestions that is not transcribed on to the same messenger RNA molecule as and

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