Controlling Gene Expression

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•Constitutive expression: genes expressed at the same level under all conditions.
•Regulated expression: genes transcribed under only certain conditions.
•How can bacteria manipulate expression levels?
-One common way: by promoting (with sigma factors and activators) or inhibiting (with repressors) RNA polymerase activity.

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