Required for the transport and metabolism of lactose in Escherichia Coli (E. coli).The lactose operon or lac operon consists of three structural genes namely lacZ, lacY, and lacA that encode proteins ...

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 ...

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. The alternative text for this image may have ...

While CRISPR may be the most notable genetic technology to emerge from microbes, many of the tools researchers use to control genes and their products are borrowed from bacterial systems. One of these ...

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 ...

The 92-year-old bacterial geneticist who helped pioneer the study of gene regulation has passed away. The organizers of the American Diabetes Association meeting had a group of researchers removed ...