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 ...

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 ...

The repression of the lac operon in the absence of lactose can be improved through DNA looping, in which LacI binds to O 1 and a second operator sequence, either O 2 or O 3. This increases the local ...

The genes lacZ, lacY and lacA are transcribed from a single promoter (P) that produces a single mRNA from which the three proteins are translated. The operon is regulated by Lac repressor, the product ...