Need a 150 word essay: This should be fictional and you can invent your own bacterial species.

1. Make up an operon, the regulatory proteins, the cellular process and the molecules being “sensed”.

2. Describe your fictional operon with legitimate details about the orientation of the genes and the promoter/operator sequences or activator binding site.

3. Provide details about the repressor/activator and inducer/inhibitor proteins.

4. Explain how the operon helps your pathogen survive and possibly thrive in its host.

5. Include details about conditions that trigger expressions of the gene(s).