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    trp operon is a group of genes that are transcribed together, encoding the enzymes that produce the amino acid tryptophan in bacteria. The trp operon...
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  • inhibited by a chemical (tryptophan). This operon contains five structural genes: trp E, trp D, trp C, trp B, and trp A, which encodes tryptophan synthetase...
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  • textbooks, is ribosome-mediated attenuation of the trp operon. Ribosome-mediated attenuation of the trp operon relies on the fact that, in bacteria, transcription...
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    pathway in bacteria. There are 5 operons which are regulated by trpR: the trpEDCBA, trpR, AroH, AroL, and mtr operons. When the amino acid tryptophan is...
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  • induced by arabinose. Operon Catabolism Catabolite repression Other operon systems in E. coli: gal operon gab operon lac operon trp operon Voet, Donald; Voet...
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    the operon. At least 6 different amino acid operons are known to be regulated by this attenuation. The formation of the terminator requires the trp RNA-binding...
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    activate a repressor protein, which binds to the trp operon. Binding of this repressor to the tryptophan operon prevents transcription of downstream DNA that...
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    termed an aporepressor or inactive repressor. One type of aporepressor is the trp repressor, an important metabolic protein in bacteria. The above mechanism...
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    repressor (TrpR) is only able to bind to DNA and repress transcription of the trp operon when its corepressor tryptophan is bound to it. TrpR in the absence...
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    early in evolution the trpB2 gene was duplicated. One copy entered the trp operon as trpB2i allowing for its expression with trpA. TrpB2i formed transient...
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  • prokaryotes with operons as the organization of genes in an operon is generally related to function. For instance, the trpA and trpB genes in Escherichia...
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    prokaryotic Operon lac operon trp operon gab operon Gua Operon ara operon gal operon Repressor lac repressor trp repressor eukaryotic both Transcription...
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    Promoter Pribnow box TATA box Operon gal operon lac operon trp operon Intron Exon Terminator Enhancer Repressor lac repressor trp repressor Silencer Histone...
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    DNA promoter, produced from the combination of promoters from the trp and lac operons. It is commonly used for protein production in Escherichia coli....
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    extraneous factors can modify the termination behavior. Rho factor WebGeSTer Trp operon Farnham, PJ; Platt, T (11 February 1981). "Rho-independent termination:...
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  • example of a cis-acting regulatory sequence is the operator in the lac operon. This DNA sequence is bound by the lac repressor, which, in turn, prevents...
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    Promoter Pribnow box TATA box Operon gal operon lac operon trp operon Intron Exon Terminator Enhancer Repressor lac repressor trp repressor Silencer Histone...
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  • PMC 11138846. PMID 12785719. Hames, B.D.; Hooper, N.M. (2004-08-02), "G4 The Trp Operon", Instant Notes Biochemistry, Taylor & Francis, pp. 177–180, ISBN 978-0-203-64527-7...
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    products of trpE and trpG. trpE encodes the first subunit, which binds to chorismate and moves the amino group from the donor to chorismate. trpG encodes...
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  • histidine (his) and tryptophan (trp) biosynthetic operons. The term "attenuation" was introduced to describe the his operon. While it is typically used to...
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  • Promoter Pribnow box TATA box Operon gal operon lac operon trp operon Intron Exon Terminator Enhancer Repressor lac repressor trp repressor Silencer Histone...
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    anthranilate synthase are encoded by the trpE and trpD genes in E. coli, both of which appear in the trp operon. In Enterobacteriaceae, this enzyme exists...
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  • Inbreeding Incestuous Inclusive fitness Incomplete dominance Inducer Inducible operon Induction Industrial melanism Infectious transfer Informed consent Inherit...
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  • Co-Evolution Predicts Known Physical Interactions in Bacterial Ribosomes and the Trp Operon". PLOS ONE. 11 (2): e0149166. arXiv:1512.05420. Bibcode:2016PLoSO..1149166F...
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    been shown to lower the operon expression, and which is already involved in the attenuation of the Trp, His and S10 operons. Naville, M; Gautheret, D...
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    regulating tryptophan genes in Pseudomonadota (see trp operon), but not in Bacteroidota. However, the Bacteroid-trp RNA motif likely operates via the same mechanism...
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  • (2004), "The different roles of tryptophan transfer RNA in regulating trp operon expression in E. coli versus B. subtilis", Trends Genet., vol. 20, no...
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    polymerase pausing and termination participates in the Bacillus subtilis trp operon attenuation mechanism in vitro. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 99:11067-11072...
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    acids core peptide derived from a longer precursor, with unusual Trp-1 to Trp-3 and Trp-3 to Lys-5 (or Arg-5, in variant forms) crosslinks. The key enzyme...
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  • lac operon and the T7 promoter. Other strong promoters used include Trp promoter and Tac-Promoter, which are a hybrid of both the Trp and Lac Operon promoters...
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