To b(gl) or not to b(gl): how cryptic are “cryptic” genes?
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Regulation of gene expression: Cryptic β-glucoside (bgl) operon of Escherichia coli as a paradigm
Bacteria have evolved various mechanisms to extract utilizable substrates from available resources and consequently acquire fitness advantage over competitors. One of the strategies is the exploitation of cryptic cellular functions encoded by genetic systems that are silent under laboratory conditions, such as the bgl (β-glucoside) operon of E. coli. The bgl operon of Escherichia coli, involved...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biosciences
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0250-5991,0973-7138
DOI: 10.1007/bf02709161