Week 4 (Operons, Promoters, RNA Polymerases)

  • Operons and their types
    • lac Operon
    • Trp Operon
  • RNA polymerases and their types
    • Prokaryotic RNA Polymerases
  • Prokaryotic Transcription Mechanims
  • Eukaryotic RNA polymerases
  • Promoter and their types
  • Repressors
  • Inducers

Reading List 

  1. Operons 
  2. RNA Polymerases
  3. Promoters 
  4. Voet, D. and J. G. Voet,. Biochemistry, John Wiley & Sons, New York