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- noun A group of genes that is regulated by the same regulatory molecule. The genes of a regulon share a common regulatory element binding site or
promoter . The genes comprising a regulon may be located non-contiguously in the genome.
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Examples
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These results indicate that a Myc regulon, which is activated in proliferating cells during normal development as well as during tumor progression, has primordial roots in the evolution of an inducible growth regime in a protozoan ancestor of animals.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Michael D Cole and Albert J Erives Seth J Brown 2008
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As I am presently writing my graduate thesis regarding the regulation of invasion genes in Mycobacterium avium, with heavy references to the Hil regulon in Salmonella part of a pathogenicity island, I should have thought of LGT as an incubator for genetic change within a species.
The Faith That Dare Not Speak Its Name - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Rodionov DA, Mironov AA, Gelfand MS (2002) Conservation of the biotin regulon and the BirA regulatory signal in Eubacteria and Archaea.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Vibha Gupta et al. 2010
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Transcription factors not broadly conserved across the phylum are possibly involved in regulon systems that have diverged between species.
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CM, Husson RN (2008) Regulation of the SigH stress response regulon by an essential protein kinase in
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gunjan Arora et al. 2010
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Rodionov DA, Mironov AA, Gelfand MS (2002) Conservation of the biotin regulon and the BirA regulatory signal in Eubacteria and Archaea.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Vibha Gupta et al. 2010
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Examining binding site enrichment patterns in light of transcription factor conservation patterns suggests a second mode via which regulon systems may diverge - rewiring of existing transcription factors and their associated binding sites in specific ways.
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Even less is known about how regulon systems, consisting of transcription factors and target genes together with their associated biological process, evolve in these diverse parasites.
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Within these systems a third analogous receptor, the QscR operates with 3-oxo-C (12) - HSL to modulate gene expression of a specific regulon which overlaps with the two other
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Thomas Bjarnsholt et al. 2010
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Rodionov DA, Mironov AA, Gelfand MS (2002) Conservation of the biotin regulon and the BirA regulatory signal in Eubacteria and Archaea.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Vibha Gupta et al. 2010
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