Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology / Ergebnisse der Mikrobiologie und Immunitatsforschung

The expression of many bacterial genes adapts itself in an almost in­ stantaneous and reversible way to specific environmental changes. More specifically, the concentration of a number of metabolites, a function of the amounts of enzymes involved in their synthesis or degradation, in turn retroacts on the rate of synthesis of these enzymes. The genetic bases for this regulation were established by...