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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Bacterial Proteins > Lac Repressors
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Transcription Factors > Repressor Proteins > Lac Repressors
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > DNA-Binding Proteins > Repressor Proteins > Lac Repressors

Preferred term

Lac Repressors  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • LacI Proteins
  • Lac Repressor
  • Proteins, LacI
  • Repressor, Lac

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 2010; use REPRESSOR PROTEINS 1979-2009

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D056968

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