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Eric Alm



	Life Cycle of Operons Yields New Look at Bacterial Genetics http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/PBD-operons.html BERKELEY, CA � In a breakthrough that will immediately benefit biologists who study bacteria, and could in the future have bearing on the advancement of synthetic biology, a team of researchers has determined the life cycle of operons, small groups of genes with related functions that are co-transcribed in a single strand of messenger RNA. Present in all known bacterial genomes, operons play a crucial role in gene expression programs that enable microbes to adapt to environmental stresses. This research was conducted by scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy�s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the University of California at Berkeley, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

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	Authors: Eric Alm
	Keywords: Bioinformatics, Comparative Genomics, Evolutionary Biology

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