微生物工生理学.ppt

* * Catabolite Repression Enzyme Induction is still considered a form of negative control because the effect of the regulatory molecule (the active repressor) is to decrease or downregulate transcription.? Catabolite repression is a type of positive control of transcription, since a regulatory protein affects an increase (upregulation) in the rate of transcription of an operon. The process was discovered in E. coli and was originally referred to as the glucose effect because it was found that glucose repressed the synthesis of certain inducible enzymes, even though the inducer of the pathway