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Mutants expressing a novel enzyme I of the phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system, termed enzyme I, were isolated from strains of Salmonella typhimurium which were deleted for the HPr and enzyme I structural genes. The mutations lay in a newly defined gene, termed ptsJ, which mapped on the S. typhimurium chromosome between the ptsHI operon and the cysA gene.
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