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Operator Sites

Operator Site is a regulatory DNA sequence in prokaryotic transcription that functions as a binding site for repressor proteins, thereby controlling gene expression by modulating the accessibility of RNA polymerase to the adjacent promoter.

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Recognition of a DNA Operator by the Repressor of Phage 434: A View at High Resolution

Aneel K. Aggarwal, David W. Rodgers, Marie Drottar et al. · Science · 1988 · 534 citations

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Mechanism of action of the lexA gene product.

Roger Brent, Mark Ptashne · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1981 · 423 citations · Full text

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Genetic and functional analysis of the multiple antibiotic resistance (mar) locus in Escherichia coli

Stan Cohen, Herbert Hächler, Stuart B. Levy · Journal of Bacteriology · 1993 · 399 citations · Full text

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An operator at -280 base pairs that is required for repression of araBAD operon promoter: addition of DNA helical turns between the operator and promoter cyclically hinders repression.

Thomas M. Dunn, Steven Hahn, S Ogden et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1984 · 383 citations · Full text

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A repressor (MATα2 product) and its operator control expression of a set of cell type specific genes in yeast

Andrew R. Johnson, Ira Herskowitz · Cell · 1985 · 365 citations

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Authors

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  1. MP
    Mark Ptashne

    Harvard University, United States

    10 publications · 2K citations

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  2. RT
    Robert T. Sauer

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    10 publications · 708 citations

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  3. JD
    John D. Helmann

    Cornell University, United States

    6 publications · 762 citations

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  4. KH
    Karin Hammer

    Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

    6 publications · 233 citations

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  5. SA
    Sankar Adhya

    National Cancer Institute, United States

    6 publications · 475 citations

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Institutions

226

  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    17 h-index

    55 publications

    9.1K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    7 h-index

    17 publications

    432 citations

  3. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    7 h-index

    23 publications

    1.5K citations

  4. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    7 h-index

    22 publications

    2.3K citations

  5. National Cancer Institute

    Bethesda, United States

    7 h-index

    19 publications

    1.4K citations

  6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    7 h-index

    14 publications

    671 citations

  7. University of Copenhagen

    Copenhagen, Denmark

    6 h-index

    14 publications

    464 citations

  8. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

    Erlangen, Germany

    5 h-index

    10 publications

    445 citations

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  1. Journal of Bacteriology

    JB · 36 publications · 2.8K citations

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  2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 23 publications · 3.2K citations

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  3. Nucleic Acids Research

    24 publications · 1K citations

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  4. Journal of Biological Chemistry

    JBC · 23 publications · 1.3K citations

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  5. Molecular Microbiology

    19 publications · 704 citations

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