Mercereau-Puijalon O, Royal A, Cami B, Garapin A, Krust A, Gannon F, Kourilsky P
Nature. 1978 Oct 12;275(5680):505-10. doi: 10.1038/275505a0.
A cloned DNA transcript of ovalbumin mRNA was cut a few nucleotides away from the initiator codon, and fused in phase to the beginning of the Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase gene. The hybrid gene has been cloned in E. coli where it produces large amounts of an ovalbumin-like protein.