Scientists have spent decades genetically modifying the bacterium Escherichia coli and other microbes to convert carbon dioxide into useful biological products. Most methods require additional carbon ...

E. coli bacteria could be used to create biodegradable plastics, reports a paper published in Nature Chemical Biology. The engineered bacterial system described in the study may help in the production ...

The genes lacZ, lacY and lacA are transcribed from a single promoter (P) that produces a single mRNA from which the three proteins are translated. The operon is regulated by Lac repressor ...

Azok, J. and deHaseth, P.L. 2001. Different roles for basic and aromatic amino acids in conserved region 2 of E. coli ?70 in the nucleation and maintenance of the single stranded DNA bubble in open ...