Sometimes the tumor cells up-regulate the expression of anti-apoptotic proteins like BCL-2.

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OC are constitutive because repressor protein is unable to bind; this allows RNA polymerase to have unrestrained access to the promoter. 

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The Oc mutations are cis-acting/cis dominant, because they affect only the contiguous set of structural genes.

 

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The DNA-binding domain occupies residues 1–59. It contains two a-helices separated by a turn. This is a common DNA-binding motif known as the HTH (helix-turn-helix); the two a-helices fit into the major groove of DNA

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Promoter mutations are also cis-acting. If they prevent RNA polymerase from binding at P-lac, the structural genes are never transcribed.

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Mutants that cannot be expressed at all are called uninducible. Mutants that are continuously expressed are called constitutive mutants.

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“Cryptic mutants” of lac operon make b-galactosidase but still could not grow on lactose means they are essentially Y-