Lac Repressors
"Lac Repressors" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Bacterial repressor proteins that bind to the LAC OPERON and thereby prevent the synthesis of proteins involved in catabolism of LACTOSE. When lactose levels are high lac repressors undergo an allosteric change that causes their release from the DNA and the resumption of lac operon transcription.
| Descriptor ID |
D056968
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.097.521 D12.776.260.703.600 D12.776.930.780.781
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| Concept/Terms |
Lac Repressors- Lac Repressors
- Repressors, Lac
- LacI Proteins
- Proteins, LacI
- Lac Repressor
- Repressor, Lac
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Pegram LM, Wendorff T, Erdmann R, Shkel I, Bellissimo D, Felitsky DJ, Record MT. Why Hofmeister effects of many salts favor protein folding but not DNA helix formation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Apr 27; 107(17):7716-21.