Structural gen

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Structural gene is the general name for genes whose gene products ( proteins or RNA ) do not have any regulatory tasks in gene expression . Instead, they code for structural proteins and enzymes . In contrast to structural genes, regulatory genes code for transcription factors and repressors .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RR Brubaker: How the structural gene products of Yersinia pestis relate to virulence. In: Future microbiology. Volume 2, Number 4, August 2007, pp. 377-385, ISSN  1746-0921 . doi : 10.2217 / 17460913.2.4.377 . PMID 17683274 .