General

Bassler, B.L., and R. Losick. 2006. Bacterially speaking. Cell 125:237–246.

Fang, F.C. 2005. Sigma cascades in prokaryotic regulatory networks. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102:4933–4934.

Gollnick, P., P. Babitzke, A. Antson, and C. Yanofsky. 2005. Complexity in regulation of tryptophan biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis. Annu. Rev. Genet. 39:47–68.

Lewis, M. 2005. The lac repressor. Crit. Rev. Biol. 328:521–548.

von Hippel, P.H. 2007. From “simple” DNA-protein interactions to the macromolecular machines of gene expression. Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biomol. Struct. 36:79–105.

Wakeman, C.A., W.C. Winkler, and C.E. Dann III. 2007. Structural features of metabolite-sensing riboswitches. Trends Biochem. Sci. 32:415–424.

Transcriptional Regulation

Jacob, F., and J. Monod. 1961. Genetic regulatory mechanisms in the synthesis of proteins. J. Mol. Biol. 3:318–356.

Kolb, A., S. Busby, H. Buc, S. Garges, and S. Adhya. 1993. Transcriptional regulation by cAMP and its receptor protein. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 62:749–795.

Lawson, C.L., D. Swigon, K.S. Murakami, S.A. Darst, H.M. Berman, and R.H. Ebright. 2004. Catabolite activator protein: DNA binding and transcription activation. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 14:10–20.

Yanofsky, C., K.V. Konan, and J.P. Sarsero. 1996. Some novel transcription attenuation mechanisms used by bacteria. Biochimie 78:1017–1024.

Beyond Transcription: Control of Other Steps in the Gene Expression Pathway

Barrick, J.E., and R.R. Breaker. 2007. The power of riboswitches: Discovering relics from a lost world run by RNA molecules may lead to modern tools for fighting disease. Sci. Am. 296(1):50–57.

Coppins, R.I., K.B. Hall, and E.A. Groisman. 2007. The intricate world of riboswitches. Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 10:176–181.

Gao, R., and A.M. Stock. 2010. Molecular strategies for phosphorylation-mediated regulation of response regulator activity. Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 13:160–167.

Magasanik, B. 2000. Global regulation of gene expression. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97:14,044–14,045.

Shapiro, L., H.H. McAdams, and R. Losick. 2009. Why and how bacteria localize proteins. Science 326:1225–1228.

Control of Gene Expression in Bacteriophages

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Hochschild, A. 2002. The switch: cI closes the gap in autoregulation. Curr. Biol. 12:R87–89.

Murray, N.E., and A. Gann. 2007. What has phage lambda ever done for us? Curr. Biol. 17:R305–312.

Oppenheim, A.B., O. Kobiler, J. Stavans, D.J. Court, and S. Adhya. 2005. Switches in bacteriophage lambda development. Annu. Rev. Genet. 39:409–429.

Ptashne, M. 1992. A Genetic Switch. Cambridge, MA: Cell Press.