单词 | structural gene |
释义 | > as lemmasstructural gene structural gene [after French gène de structure (F. Jacob & J. Monod 1959, in Comptes rendus de l'Acad. des Sci. 249 1282)] Molecular Biology any gene whose final product is a protein or RNA molecule which is not a regulator of gene expression; contrasted with regulator gene, regulatory gene. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [adjective] > gene > types of gene monofactorial1920 monogenic1921 polygenic1928 multigenic1933 additive1936 oligogenic1943 X-linked1949 Y-linked1949 multigene1954 structural gene1959 orthologous1970 paralogous1970 1959 Jrnl. Molecular Biol. 1 177 The situation revealed with the present system, namely a genetic ‘complex’ comprising, besides the ‘structural’ genes (z, y) a repressor-making gene (i) whose function is to block or regulate the expression of the neighbouring genes is, so far, unique for enzyme systems. 1976 F. J. Ayala Molecular Evol. ii. 12 Substitutions in the DNA nucleotide sequence of a structural gene may result in changes in the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide encoded by the gene. 2002 I. Sansom Truth about Babies 310 If we are phenotypically different, it seems, we owe it to regulatory genes rather than structural genes. < as lemmas |
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