In bacteria, protein coding genes are organized in an operon.
If the operon contain three protein coding regions,
My questions are;
1. Do all genes operate from one promoter?
2. Can individual gene have unique promoter ?
3. Can promoter region exist in a coding region of another gene?
Thank you for your feed back
Hi
For your 2 first questions here an answer:
http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/operons-and-prokaryotic-gene-regulation-992#
For your ither question some promoters were found (by modelling) to overlap other promoters
http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/5/997.full
the supplemental data contains transcription starts sites identified in the forward direction for which a transcription start site in the opposite direction was found within a distance which assumes that the two promoters overlap.
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