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Role of Cyclic Adenosine 3',5'-Monophosphate in the In Vivo Expression of the Galactose Operon of Escherichia coli

Departments of Biophysics and Biochemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637

ABSTRACT

Studies of levels of galactokinase in Escherichia coli with mutations affecting synthesis of, or response to, cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate show that this nucleotide does not play a major role in expression of the galactose operon, causing at most a twofold stimulation. The discrepancy between our in vivo results and the marked stimulation by cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate in in vitro systems indicates that current cell-free systems lack a factor which allows efficient expression of the galactose operon even in the absence of cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate or of the binding protein for this nucleotide.