... amplified by PCR, using primers5¢-ATTTCGATCATGCAGGCCG-3¢ and 5¢-GGAAGAACCGTGCATTACC-3¢, and labeled with [a- 32P]dCTP using a Megaprime labeling kit (Amersham Pharmacia, Piscataway,NJ, USA). Hybridization ... PO &Matthews RG (2002) Adaptation to famine: a family of stationary-phase genes revealed by microarray analysis.Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99, 13471–13476.30 Glatz A, Horva´th I, Varvasovszki ... upstream of the translation initiation site of the fbaA gene was amplified, using forward primer5¢-GCAGAAACTAGCCTAAGATG-3¢ and reverse primer5¢-CCATTTTCCGCCGCATGGTC-3¢. A 121-bp DNAfragment, prom2,...