allolactose


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al·lo·lac·tose

(al'ō-lăk'tōs),
A sugar, isomeric with lactose, that is the true inducer of the lac operon.
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The best examples of the effects of allosteric effectors on TF function are allolactose on the lac repressor interaction with DNA and steroids on nuclear factors.
The lac repressor interacts with RNAP when not bound to allolactose. The RNAP in this complex with the lac repressor cycles through abortive initiation making short transcripts.
Phenotypic Nonspecificity as the Result of Limited Specificity of Transcription Factor Function
It is due to reason that high level of allolactose is required at the time of induction.
Lactose induced expression of Thermotoga petrophila a-amylase gene regulated by T7 promoter in E. coli codon plus (DE3)
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