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A bacterial gene is the minimal contiguous stretch of DNA in a bacterium that contains the expressed and regulatory sequences sufficient to complement the function of a null mutation in trans.

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Research in the authors' laboratory is funded by the MRC, BMA and Asthma UK. M Portelli is funded by a STEPS (Malta) studentship. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial ...