[Role of substrate inductors in the mechanism of cortisol action on beta-galactosidase activity in different strains of E. coli k-12 and in rat liver].

A comparative study of the effect of cortisone on the beta-galactosidase synthesis in E. coli K-12 strains with an induced (E. coli 200 PS/Iac), constitutive (E. coli ML-308), and superrepressed (E. coli 200is) type of the enzyme synthesis and in the cells of rat liver demonstrated that the hormone proper had no derepressive effect. An increase of the beta-galactosidase synthesis occurred only in the presence of specific substrate inductors. It is supposed that the principal link in the action mechanism of cortisone on the laclose operon of E. coli and the enzyme production in the cells of the rat liver is preliminary derepression of the genome areas by means of the substrate inductors.