For most genes, proteins are the athletic embodiment of these professional activities. Our task as agents then, is to find the correct medium for these proteins to "show their stuff". Occasionally, we ...

Working with a panel of mutants that had defects in different components of the lac operon (Table 1), these researchers were able to determine how the system ... of gene expression in prokaryotic ...

This basic system affects gene expression in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, albeit in different ways. Gene expression is not always an all-or-nothing process, however. Within prokaryotes ...