Genetic Switch
Subtitle: Phage Lambda Revisited
Edition: 3 edition
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Published: April 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780879697167
Subjects: Genetics (non-medical); Science; Genetics; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Genetic regulation; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics; Bacteriophage lambda; Gene Expression Regulation; Viral genetics
First sentence: The genes of phage constitute a single DNA molecule-its chromosome-wrapped in a protein coat (Figure 1.1).
Description: "The first edition of A Genetic Switch has become a classic exposition of gene regulation, explaining in simple molecular terms how proteins bind DNA and turn genes on and off as the virus lambda grows in bacteria. To that original text, reprinted here with small modifications, the author has added a chapter describing recent advances that extend and deepen our understanding of lambda's "genetic switch." The study of lambda reveals the basic reactions that underlie transcriptional regulation in all organisms and shows how those reactions can be combined to produce a complex regulatory circuit."--BOOK JACKET.