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From: Joshua Cherry <cherry@harp.genetics.utah.edu>
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Subject: Re: Product-inducible enzymes?
Date: 13 Dec 1999 15:27:23 -0700
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In a sense, E. coli beta-galactosidase is an example of this.
Lactose itself is a poor inducer of the lac operon.  The
real inducer is allolactose, which is produced from lactose
by a side-reaction of beta-galactosidase.

Josh Cherry

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