Describe the effects of mutating a sigma factor gene in bacteria
What will be an ideal response?
The core RNA polymerase enzyme will form. Since there are more than one sigma factor genes, by mutating a single sigma factor gene there will be some holoenzymes that will not form which will affect specific gene transcription.
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