Regulating Gene Expression, step by step
Levels at which expression can be controlled.
- TranscriptionalPromoters, enhancers, transcription factors. The main control point.
- Post-transcriptionalAlternative splicing, mRNA stability, microRNA.
- TranslationalInitiation factors, mRNA availability.
- Post-translationalFolding, cleavage, phosphorylation, degradation.
- EpigeneticDNA methylation and histone modification.
The lac operon
- Lactose absent: repressor binds, no transcription
- Lactose present: it binds the repressor, transcription proceeds
- An inducible system — off by default
The trp operon is the mirror image: repressible, on by default, switched off when tryptophan is abundant.
Questions about the Regulating Gene Expression poster
- What’s on the Regulating Gene Expression poster?
- 5 numbered steps, with a full worked run-through. Levels at which expression can be controlled. Transcriptional — Promoters, enhancers, transcription factors. The main control point.; Post-transcriptional — Alternative splicing, mRNA stability, microRNA.; Translational — Initiation factors, mRNA availability.; Post-translational — Folding, cleavage, phosphorylation, degradation.; Epigenetic — DNA methylation and histone modification.. The trp operon is the mirror image: repressible, on by default, switched off when tryptophan is abundant.
- Who is the Regulating Gene Expression poster for?
- Regulating Gene Expression belongs to the Biology section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning genetics can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Regulating Gene Expression poster?
- The lac operon is the standard prokaryotic example. Eukaryotes are more layered. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Regulating Gene Expression belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Regulating Gene Expression?
- CRISPR-Cas9, DNA Sequencing and Epigenetics sit alongside Regulating Gene Expression in the Biology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.CRISPR-Cas9DNA SequencingEpigenetics
- Is the Regulating Gene Expression poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Regulating Gene Expression downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Biology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Regulating Gene Expression poster print at?
- Regulating Gene Expression is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Regulating Gene Expression loses nothing.Printing guide
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