Gene Regulation and the TRP operon

1. A) An operon is a group of structural genes controlled by one promoter and operator

B) low trp environment

In high trp environment repressor protein binds to the operator and therefore RNA
polymerase cannot successfully attach to transcribe the structural genes
Structural genes code for enzymes that assist in the production of tryptophan

Attenuator found in the leader sequence. Attenuation

Low Trp Attenuation

1. Ribosomes do not paus at doule trp codon as theres is lots of typ

2. Terminator hairpin forms so RNA olymerate stops transcribing yh es stucutal genes
3. With attenued imcolpm mrna ensymes for building trp are not made

Repressor protein is a transcription factor.