Genetic Regulatory Mechanisms and the Ecological Niche of Escherichia coli
Abstract
Whether the regulatory protein of an inducible operon for a catabolic pathway is a positive or a negative element in the control of expression is correlated with the frequent or infrequent presence, respectively, of the system's substrate in the natural environment.
- Publication:
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
- Pub Date:
- June 1974
- DOI:
- 10.1073/pnas.71.6.2453
- Bibcode:
- 1974PNAS...71.2453S