THE LACTOSE OPERON

THE LACTOSE OPERON
Edited By
JONATHAN R. BECKWITH
Harvard Medical School
and
DAVID ZIPSER
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
1970
Table of Contents
Preface J. R. Beckwith and D. Zipser
v
The Lactose Operon
ix
Chapters
I. Introduction
F. Jacob and J. Monod
II. Lac: The Genetic System
1
J. R. Beckwith
5
III. /S-galactosidase and Thiogalactoside Transacetylase
/. Zabin and A. V. Fowler
27
IV. The Lactose Permease System of E. coli
V. The Lactose Repressor
E. P. Kennedy
W. Gilbert and B. Muller-Hill
VI. Transcription of-'the Lactose Operon in £. coli
G. Contesse, M. Crepin, and F. Gros
VII. Complementation in /3-galactosidase
A. Ullmann and D. Perrin
'
49
93
111
143
VIII. Transcription Starts and Stops in the lac Operon
J. H. Miller
173
xlX. Glucose Effects: Inducer Exclusion and Repression
B. Magasanik
189
X. Polarity and Translational Punctuation
Research Articles
D. Zipser
221
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1. Isolation of /J-Thiogalactoside Binding Proteins of £. coli by
Specific Adsorbents S. Tomino and K. Paigen
233
2. Isoenzymes of Bacterial /3-galactosidase: Renaturation of
Heavier Isoenzymes from Dissociated £. coli /S-galactosidase
R. P. Erickson and E. Steers, Jr.
251
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b On the Stoichiometry and Kinetics of « Complementation of
I E. coli /8-galactosidase A. Ullmann and J. Monod
265
;. Structural Studies of w-complemented /?-galactosidase of
I E. coli M. E. Goldberg
.
273
i, Partial Loss of Activity of Individual Molecules of Aged
> /?-galactosidase A/I. B. Rotman
279
i. Antibody Mediated Activation of a'Defective /3-galactosidase
(AMEF). Characteristics of Binding and Activation Processes
F. Celada, R. Strom, and K. Bodlund
291
'. The Activation of Mutant yS-galactosidase by Specific
Antibodies W. Messer and F.Melchers
305
|; Is Subunit Assembly a Rate-Limiting Factor on Induction?
[: L. Adamson, C. Gross, and A. Novick
317
i Superrepressors of the lab Operon
325
S. Bourgeois and A. Jobe
'i Strains with the Promoter Deletion LI Synthesize an Altered
I lac Repressor J. H. Miller, J. Platt, and K. Weber
343
i Deletion of Translational Start Signals in the lac Operon of
£. coli L Eron, J. R. Beckwith, and F. Jacob
353
, Some Properties of Insertion Mutations in the lac Operon
M. H. Malamy
359
. Cell-Free Studies on the Regulation of the lac Operon
G. Zubay, D. A. Chambers, and L. C, Cheong
375
. Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate Diesterase Activity and
Catabolite Repression in £. coli
D. Monard, J. Janecek, and H. V. Rickenberg
393
. On the Mechanism of Catabolite Repression
G. Contesse, M. Crepin, and F. Gros
401
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. Mutants Missing a Factor Necessary for the Expression of
Catabolite-Sensitive Operons in £. coli
D. Schwartz and J. R. Beckwith
VII
417