"Operon" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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In bacteria, a group of metabolically related genes, with a common promoter, whose transcription into a single polycistronic MESSENGER RNA is under the control of an OPERATOR REGION.
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D009876
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MeSH Number(s) |
G05.360.340.024.686 G05.360.340.358.207.500
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Operon" by people in Profiles.
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Postexponential regulation of sin operon expression in Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol. 2002 Jan; 184(2):564-71.
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Conversion of the lac repressor into an allosterically regulated transcriptional activator for mammalian cells. Mol Cell Biol. 1990 Jul; 10(7):3343-56.