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Operon Control

Operon Control is a regulatory mechanism in bacterial gene expression that functions as a genetic switch, integrating environmental and cellular signals to coordinate the transcription of functionally related genes within an operon through the action of specific repressor or activator proteins.

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Analysis of gene control signals by DNA fusion and cloning in Escherichia coli

M J Casadaban, Stanley N. Cohen · Journal of Molecular Biology · 1980 · 2.5K citations

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Independent and tight regulation of transcriptional units in Escherichia coli via the LacR/O, the TetR/O and AraC/I1-I2 regulatory elements

Rainer Lutz · Nucleic Acids Research · 1997 · 1.8K citations · Full text

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The three operators of the lac operon cooperate in repression.

Stefan Oehler, Elisabeth R. Eismann, Helmut Krämer et al. · The EMBO Journal · 1990 · 492 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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Cell population heterogeneity during growth of <i>Bacillus subtilis</i>

Daniel B. Kearns, Richard Losick · Genes & Development · 2005 · 376 citations · Full text

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    Charles Yanofsky

    Stanford University, United States

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    Sankar Adhya

    National Cancer Institute, United States

    18 publications · 1.6K citations

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    Joseph M. Calvo

    Cornell University, United States

    15 publications · 949 citations

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    Valley Stewart

    University of California, Davis, United States

    14 publications · 560 citations

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    Milton H. Saier

    University of California San Diego, United States

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  1. Institut Pasteur

    Paris, France

    25 h-index

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    7K citations

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    Ithaca, United States

    24 h-index

    73 publications

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  3. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    24 h-index

    77 publications

    11.5K citations

  4. National Cancer Institute

    Bethesda, United States

    21 h-index

    66 publications

    5.3K citations

  5. National Institutes of Health

    Bethesda, United States

    20 h-index

    58 publications

    3.4K citations

  6. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    20 h-index

    97 publications

    5.7K citations

  7. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    18 h-index

    42 publications

    4.6K citations

  8. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    17 h-index

    60 publications

    2.4K citations

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  1. Journal of Bacteriology

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  3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 55 publications · 5.2K citations

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  4. Molecular Microbiology

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  5. Molecular and General Genetics MGG

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