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Prokaryotic control of transcription: How and why does it differ from eukaryotic control?

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Inducible Gene Expression, Volume 1

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Abstract

Escherichia coli and all other prokaryotes have developed elaborate mechanisms to adapt their metabolism to a rapidly changing environment. Some of these mechanisms allow the bacteria to approach or to flee particular chemicals (Adler, 1975; Boyd and Simon, 1982). We will not discuss such mechanisms here. Other mechanisms adapt the transcription rates of genes whose products are needed or not needed in a particular environment. Genes which deal with the catabolism of chemicals which suddenly appear in the environment have to be rapidly turned on. We have to recall that the inner bacterial membrane does not allow the entry of most organic chemicals. There has to be a permease, a specific pump, present which transports the chemical into the cell.

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Oehler, S., Müller-Hill, B. (1995). Prokaryotic control of transcription: How and why does it differ from eukaryotic control?. In: Baeuerle, P.A. (eds) Inducible Gene Expression, Volume 1. Progress in Gene Expression. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6840-3_1

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