1957
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.43.7.553
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Enzyme Induction as an All-or-None Phenomenon

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“…However, once induction was attained, the operon could remain functional at very low lactose concentrations or even in the presence of another carbon source, such as glucose. This effect occurred because the quantities of permease synthesized during pre-induction allowed the bacterium to reach sufficient internal inducer concentrations to overcome the inhibitory effect of glucose (Figure 1) (Novick & Weiner 1957). Alternatively, while testing low inducer concentrations (thiomethyl-β-d-galactoside, TMG), Novick and Weiner (1957) established that the activation of the lac operon occurred over time in a portion of the E. coli culture, as permease and β-galactosidase were produced, until they reached a maximal rate of synthesis.…”
Section: From Waddington's Concept and Nanney's Epigenetics To The Prmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…However, once induction was attained, the operon could remain functional at very low lactose concentrations or even in the presence of another carbon source, such as glucose. This effect occurred because the quantities of permease synthesized during pre-induction allowed the bacterium to reach sufficient internal inducer concentrations to overcome the inhibitory effect of glucose (Figure 1) (Novick & Weiner 1957). Alternatively, while testing low inducer concentrations (thiomethyl-β-d-galactoside, TMG), Novick and Weiner (1957) established that the activation of the lac operon occurred over time in a portion of the E. coli culture, as permease and β-galactosidase were produced, until they reached a maximal rate of synthesis.…”
Section: From Waddington's Concept and Nanney's Epigenetics To The Prmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This effect occurred because the quantities of permease synthesized during pre-induction allowed the bacterium to reach sufficient internal inducer concentrations to overcome the inhibitory effect of glucose (Figure 1) (Novick & Weiner 1957). Alternatively, while testing low inducer concentrations (thiomethyl-β-d-galactoside, TMG), Novick and Weiner (1957) established that the activation of the lac operon occurred over time in a portion of the E. coli culture, as permease and β-galactosidase were produced, until they reached a maximal rate of synthesis. Although activated bacteria passed on the activated state to their progeny during cell division, it was not possible to achieve induction in the entire population of cells in the culture because of the limiting levels of inducer and because induced cells reproduced at a lower rate than uninduced cells (Figure 2) (Novick & Weiner 1957).…”
Section: From Waddington's Concept and Nanney's Epigenetics To The Prmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Cette réponse immédiate est de fait déclenchée par l'expression précoce et aléatoire de gènes normalement réprimés par une fraction de la population. Il ne s'agit là finalement que d'une réinterprétation plus quantitative de la bistabilité de l'opéron lactose, constatée dès les débuts de la biologie moléculaire [17]. La cellule reste de fait aveugle au lactose extracellulaire tant qu'un événement aléatoire n'a pas amorcé la production de pompes (LacY) 1 important le lactose (mesuré cette fois, de manière intracellulaire), en induisant un changement de conformation de la protéine lacI, régulateur de l'expression des enzymes.…”
Section: Diversification Phénotypique Chez Les Microbesunclassified
“…Ce type de circuits moléculaires et d'autres plus complexes ont depuis été très étudiés théoriquement, notamment par R. Thomas et ses collègues [5]. La réalité de ces systèmes a été démontrée expérimentalement dès la fin des années 1950 avec l'exemple de l'opéron lactose inductible de A. Novick et M. Weiner chez la bactérie E. coli [6], puis à de multiples reprises au cours des cinquante dernières années, ce qui a permis à la biologie systémique de s'affirmer aujourd'hui comme discipline à part entière.…”
Section: Biologie Systémique : Des Concepts Historiques…unclassified