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Isolation of the LAC repressor.

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Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA), 56, 1891-1898. 1966 CE.

With his Ph.D. student Benno Müller-Hill, Gilbert was the first to purify the lac repressor, just beating out Mark Ptashne for purifying the first gene regulatory protein.

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Entry Number#13951
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External URLisolation-of-the-lac-repressor