Genetics: From Genes to Genomes, 5th edition
5th Edition
ISBN: 9780073525310
Author: Leland H. Hartwell, Michael L. Goldberg, Janice A. Fischer, Leroy Hood, Charles F. Aquadro
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 15, Problem 8P
You have isolated two different mutants (reg1 and reg2) causing constitutive expression of the emu operon (emu1 emu2). One mutant contains a defect in a DNA-binding site, and the other has a loss-of-function defect in the gene encoding a protein that binds to the site.
| a. Is the DNA-binding protein a positive or negative regulator of gene expression? | ||
b. To determine which mutant has a defect in the site and which one has a mutation in the binding protein, you decide to do an analysis using F′ plasmids. Assuming you can assay levels of the Emu1 and Emu2 proteins, what results do you predict for the two strains (i and ii; see descriptions below) if reg2 encodes the regulatory protein and reg1 is the regulatory site?
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| c. What results do you predict for the two strains (i and ii) if reg1 encodes the regulatory protein and reg2 is the regulatory site? |
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Chapter 15 Solutions
Genetics: From Genes to Genomes, 5th edition
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