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  • Institution/s: Universidad de Valladolid
  • Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
  • Identification number: 6
  • Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
  • Author/s: Augustine Edith EMENE, Carmen CUÉLLAR LÁZARO, Isabel COMAS MARTÍNEZ, Laura SANJUÁN LANCHO
  • Creation / modification date: 28-02-2014
  • Term: operator gene(s)
  • Gramatical category: s
  • Definition: A segment of DNA that controls the functioning of a specific series of structural genes and lies adjacent to the structural genes which it controls.
  • Context: The product of the regulator gene together with small molecular weight, usually exogenous, regulators interacts with the operator gene to control the expression of the entire operon.
  • Weighting mark: nor
  • Sources:
    • Term: EMERY, A.E.H. y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition.
    • Definition: Inductible operon. TutorVista.com. [En línea]. http://www.tutorvista.com/content/biology/biology-iii/gene-regulation/inducible-operon.php [última consulta: 20/12/2013] Biology online. Dictionary. [en línea]. http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Op
    • Context: PITOT, Henry C. and HEIDELBERGER, Charles (1963): “Metabolic Regulatory Circuits and Carcinogenesis”. En Cancer research [en línea]. http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/23/10_Part_1/1694.short [última consulta: 20/12/2013]
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    • operator gene(s)
      BUSELMAIER, Werner (2012). Biologie für Mediziner. 12. neubearbeitete und erweiterte Aufl. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 269.
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