"Operon" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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In bacteria, a group of metabolically related genes, with a common promoter, whose transcription into a single polycistronic MESSENGER RNA is under the control of an OPERATOR REGION.
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D009876
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G05.360.340.024.686 G05.360.340.358.207.500
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2007 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Operon" by people in Profiles.
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Quirk NF, Gregory KN, Morita YS, Tan S. Rv3839-Rv3840 links the endogenous heme biosynthesis pathway with Mycobacterium tuberculosis adaptation to nitric oxide and iron limitation stress. PLoS Genet. 2026 Jun; 22(6):e1012202.
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Roussou S, Lindblad P. Increased acetate production in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 strain engineered with an operon of phosphoketolase and phosphotransacetylase and further overexpression of acetate kinase. Microb Cell Fact. 2026 Feb 18; 25(1).
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Xiang Y, Xiong JX, Xie ZF, Huang D, Song Q, Wu J, Yan D, Chao HJ. The XylR/NtrC-type regulator CbsR positively regulates upstream pathway of chlorobenzene degradation in Pandoraea pnomenusa. J Appl Microbiol. 2023 Apr 03; 134(4).
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Poweleit N, Czudnochowski N, Nakagawa R, Trinidad DD, Murphy KC, Sassetti CM, Rosenberg OS. The structure of the endogenous ESX-3 secretion system. Elife. 2019 12 30; 8.
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Savage CR, Jutras BL, Bestor A, Tilly K, Rosa PA, Tourand Y, Stewart PE, Brissette CA, Stevenson B. Borrelia burgdorferi SpoVG DNA- and RNA-Binding Protein Modulates the Physiology of the Lyme Disease Spirochete. J Bacteriol. 2018 06 15; 200(12).
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Chen J, Picard RA, Wang D, Nugen SR. Lyophilized Engineered Phages for Escherichia coli Detection in Food Matrices. ACS Sens. 2017 11 22; 2(11):1573-1577.
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Garc?a-Fern?ndez J, Papavinasasundaram K, Gal?n B, Sassetti CM, Garc?a JL. Molecular and functional analysis of the mce4 operon in Mycobacterium smegmatis. Environ Microbiol. 2017 09; 19(9):3689-3699.
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Garc?a-Fern?ndez J, Papavinasasundaram K, Gal?n B, Sassetti CM, Garc?a JL. Unravelling the pleiotropic role of the MceG ATPase in Mycobacterium smegmatis. Environ Microbiol. 2017 07; 19(7):2564-2576.
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Rock JM, Hopkins FF, Chavez A, Diallo M, Chase MR, Gerrick ER, Pritchard JR, Church GM, Rubin EJ, Sassetti CM, Schnappinger D, Fortune SM. Programmable transcriptional repression in mycobacteria using an orthogonal CRISPR interference platform. Nat Microbiol. 2017 Feb 06; 2:16274.
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Denby KJ, Iwig J, Bisson C, Westwood J, Rolfe MD, Sedelnikova SE, Higgins K, Maroney MJ, Baker PJ, Chivers PT, Green J. The mechanism of a formaldehyde-sensing transcriptional regulator. Sci Rep. 2016 12 09; 6:38879.