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We have analysed the regulatory behaviour of deletion mutants lacking different segments of the leader region of the tryptophan operon of Serratia marcescens. Our results support the model in which a particular RNA structure, the terminator, is recognized during transcription as a transcription termination signal, and an alternative RNA structure, the anti-terminator, prevents formation of the terminator. It appears that the role of translation, ribosome stalling and shifts between alternative RNA secondary structures, is simply to regulate formation of the terminator.
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Stroynowski, I., Yanofsky, C. Transcript secondary structures regulate transcription termination at the attenuator of S. marcescens tryptophan operon. Nature 298, 34–38 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1038/298034a0
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