Talk:Operon
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[edit] Improvement
I have decided to make considerable improvement to this article. Expect significant revision and additions to this page by May 14th. This includes all suggested revisions and information regarding the specific components and mutation of operons.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.139.241.181 (talk) 01:06, 8 May 2007 (UTC).
[edit] lac operon.
There appears to be no way to italicise the lac in the link to lac operon. Anyone know how to do it? It comes out as [[lac operon]]. Also remember that in prokaryotic genetics, cistron/operon names are italicised and always start in lower case. The protein product always starts in upper case and is not italicised. So lac Z is the cistron and LacZ is the protein.--Alun 05:48, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
- Italicization done. I did it by piping the name like so: [[lac operon|''lac'' operon]]. SWAdair | Talk 05:54, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
What is positive gene regulation? What is negative gene regulation?
[edit] Prokaryotes
The OED online defines an operon as specific to prokaryotes. I recall that operons are specific to prokaryotes, though my memory is far from perfect. I am assuming the OED is correct. What is the general opinion.--Alun 07:38, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
The OED is incorrect (out of date, really). Operons appear most broadly in bacteria and archaea, but also appear in some eukaryotes.Parakkum 19:41, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Structural genes
I am confused by this definition, and im not sure its correct... What is meant by structural genes? Genes which produce structural proteins? - Zephyris Talk 12:29, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Reorganization
I think this page needs a bit of reorganization. I'm not really qualified, but I may be next year. If it hasn't been done by then, I'll attempt it.
It would be better if the contents of the article were more hierarchical. I'll meditate some more on how exactly to accomplish that. --aciel 22:27, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
