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We Still Don’t Know Everything about the Lac Operon (But We are Getting Closer!). Steve Brewer Patrick Ehrman Allen Koop. Lac Operon. Lac Promoter. Comparison of No ligand-bound Repressor to DNA-bound and Inducer-bound Repressor. 1LBI no ligand; 1LBH inducer; 1LBG DNA.
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We Still Don’t Know Everything about the Lac Operon(But We are Getting Closer!) Steve Brewer Patrick Ehrman Allen Koop
Comparison of No ligand-bound Repressor to DNA-bound and Inducer-bound Repressor • 1LBI no ligand; 1LBH inducer; 1LBG DNA
Comparison of Inducer-bound Repressor to DNA-bound and No ligand-bound Repressor • 1LBH-inducer; 1LBG-DNA; 1LBI no ligand
Acknowledgements • Slides 2-3 http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/L/LacOperon.html • Slides 4-6, 8-9 NCBI structural program http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ • Slide 7 http://www.webbooks.com/MoBio/Free/Ch4D3.htm