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Abstract

A class of chlorate-resistant mutants of 110 has been isolated which is devoid of nitrate reductase activity but forms normal amounts of this enzyme when the medium is supplemented with 100 μ-sodium molybdate. Addition of molybdate to the mutants in the presence of chloramphenicol results in the formation of active nitrate reductase detected by nitrite secretion in the culture supernatant.

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