Microbial Pathogenesis & Infectious Diseases

Microbial genetics

Microbial genetics provides powerful tools for deciphering the regulation, as well as the functional and pathway organization/association of cellular processes. This involves both discovering the regulatory genes as well as sites that control individual gene expression and determining which genes are coregulated and thus, likely to participate in the same process. Often genes that are coregulated and located next to each other in the same transcriptional unit (an operon), but there are numerous/abundant cases of dispersed sets of genes that are coregulated (regulons).