Recent research described in a review article in the Journal of Biochemistry & Analytical Biochemistry ("Rethinking the Bacterial Genetic Regulation") indicates there is more to bacterial genetics than was previously suspected.
Bacterial geneticists have had tidy maps of genomes, with promoters and transcription units and operons neatly outlined -- all components that make sure that genes that work together are expressed at the same time. Those things are all still true. But nobody knew unti...
Published on September 10, 2015 03:02