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Regulation of Gene Expression: Sumber: © 2017 W. H. Freeman and Company
Regulation of Gene Expression: Sumber: © 2017 W. H. Freeman and Company
Regulation of Gene Expression: Sumber: © 2017 W. H. Freeman and Company
Gene Expression
• Housekeeping gene
• under constitutive expression
• constantly expressed in approximately all cells
• Regulated gene
• Levels of the gene product rise and fall with
the needs of the organism.
• Such genes are inducible.
• able to be turned on
• Such genes are also repressible.
• able to be turned of
RNA Polymerase Binding to
Promoters Is a Major Target
of Regulation
• RNA polymerases bind to promoter
sequences near the starting point of
transcription initiation.