Last week I finally addressed promoters and gave a bit of background on the lac operon. Looking back, I feel that I didn't give the topic of operons adequate treatment. They are a very crucial aspect ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We use the lac operon in Escherichia coli as a prototype system to illustrate the current state, applicability, and limitations of modeling ...

Required for the transport and metabolism of lactose in Escherichia Coli (E. coli).The lactose operon or lac operon consists of three structural genes namely lacZ, lacY, and lacA that encode proteins ...