Talk:Lac repressor
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Moved from article, not encyclopedic, unless it's a noted as a particular fable in the field (which I don't think it is). --Lexor 23:33, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Once a happy bacterium was swimming in the water. Its favorite food, glucose was everywhere. It had nothing to do but eat and swim. Then one day it swam to water where there was no glucose. It soon grew tired and hungry. But the wisdom of its ancestors came to the rescue. The ancestral memory told the little bacterium the water had plenty of lactose it could make into glucose. It was more work than just eating glucose but it was well worth the effort and the bacterium regained its strength. It swam to where it could find glucose again.
[edit] Not an enzyme
Edited first sentence. LacI is not an enzyme - it does not catalyze any chemical reaction.
This could probably use a bit of work in general (I'll see if I can put something together little by little). It seems somewhat vague for something which is the one of the first known examples of one of the fundamental concepts in biochemistry. The search for the lac crystal structure lasted for decades. I see the lac operon has a bit more detail. This article should probably not describe how the operon as a whole works, but should probably focus on the repressor itself, its structure, and how it actually works. --Rich0 02:29, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)
