This bacterial strain did not have a feedback loop but instead contained a second "input channel" to drive up the production ...
Molecules can interfere with RNA polymerase binding. An inactive repressor protein (blue) can become activated by another molecule (red circle). This active repressor can bind to a region near the ...
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How do bacteria avoid wasteful production of unnecessary proteins when their genes are always on? The answer lies in regulating the operon. As trp levels increase, trp binds to trpR, causing a ...
A high throughput screen of >30,000 diverse repressor domains from across the tree of life identifies repressor domains with unique structures that underpin enhanced epigenetic effector domain ...