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Erythromycin resistant (ery r) mutants were isolated from Bacillus subtilis ATCC 6633. The composition of ribosomal proteins were analyzed for thirteen such ery r-mutants with chromatography on a carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) column. The 50s subunit from all of the ery r-mutants was found to contain the altered 50d protein. The ribosomes prepared from the ery r-mutants did not show in vitro alteration of the ability to combine with erythromycin.
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Tanaka, K., Tamaki, M., Osawa, S. et al. Erythromycin resistant mutants of Bacillus subtilis . Molec. Gen. Genet. 127, 157–161 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00333663
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