{"id":7588,"date":"2023-03-03T23:02:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T23:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/regulation-of-the-e-coli-lac-operon\/"},"modified":"2023-03-03T23:02:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T23:02:17","slug":"regulation-of-the-e-coli-lac-operon","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/regulation-of-the-e-coli-lac-operon\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulation of the E. coli Lac Operon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-sm-12 messageContent\">\n <b>Learning Goal: <\/b>I&#8217;m working on a biochemistry exercise and need the explanation and answer to help me learn.<\/p>\n<p><em>E. coli <\/em>prefers glucose as a carbon source, but in the absence of glucose, is willing to use other materials, such as lactose. In order to metabolize lactose, two proteins must be made: \u00ce\u00b2-galactosidase (cleaves lactose into glucose and galactose) and lactose permease (pumps lactose into cell).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning Goal: I&#8217;m working on a biochemistry exercise and need the explanation and answer to help me learn. E. coli prefers glucose as a carbon source, but in the absence of glucose, is willing to use other materials, such as lactose. In order to metabolize lactose, two proteins must be made: \u00ce\u00b2-galactosidase (cleaves lactose into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[1066],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/7588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/7588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=7588"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=7588"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=7588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}