CII is a very unstable protein in E. coli; it is degraded by a specific protease called FtsH (HflB), encoded by the hfl gene. 

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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-

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Catabolite repression is exerted through a second messenger called cyclic AMP (cAMP) and the positive regulator protein called the catabolite repressor protein (CRP), a dimer.

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CAP–cAMP complex stimulates transcription of the lac operon by binding to an activator-binding site adjacent to the promoter and helping RNA polymerase bind to the promoter.

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CAP–cAMP increases the rate of formation of the closed promoter complex, CAP–cAMP provides CPC for conversion to the open promoter complex. 

Thus, the net effect of CAP–cAMP is to increase the rate of open promoter complex formation.

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CAP–cAMP binds upstream to promoters DNA and target bends the DNA considerably about 100 degrees