Last week I finally addressed promoters and gave a bit of background on the lac operon. Looking back, I feel that I didn't give the topic of operons adequate treatment. They are a very crucial aspect ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We use the lac operon in Escherichia coli as a prototype system to illustrate the current state, applicability, and limitations of modeling ...

The 92-year-old bacterial geneticist who helped pioneer the study of gene regulation has passed away. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and water, personal space is ...

New research suggests a possible explanation for the organization of operons, jointly controlled clusters of genes that evolved in bacterial chromosomes. Operons, which are found in the chromosomes of ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. Figure 1: Variation of the steady-state β-galactosidase activity with the specific growth rate. Because the β-galactosidase activity of ...