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Gene Regulation

CONCEPT OUTLINE
  • Introduction
  • Regulation of Gene Expression in Prokaryotes
  • Induction and Repression
  • Types of Operons
  • Lac Operon
  • Regulation of Lactose Operon
    • Negative regulation of lactose operon

       

  • Catabolite Repression
  • Positive Regulation of Lac Operon
    • Positive regulation by cAMP
    • Gratuitous inducers
  • Tryptophan Operon and Attenuation
    • Structural genes
    • Regulatory gene
    • Operator
    • Co-repressor
    • Attenuation
  • Regulation of Eukaryotic Gene Expression
  • Regulation of the Chromatin Structure
    • Chromatin remodelling
    • Nucleosome-remodelling factors
    • Histone modifications
    • DNA methylation
  • Regulation of Gene Expression at Transcription Level
    • Cis-acting regulatory sequences: promoters and enhancers
    • Transcriptional regulatory proteins

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