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20 January, 01:52

Some mercury-resistant bacteria can convert toxic forms of mercury to less toxic forms using the mer operon under transcriptional regulation the merr protein. what molecule would you predict binds to merr to cause it to act as a repressor or as an activator of transcription for this operon?

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  1. 20 January, 05:31
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    Mercury would bind to the mer operon to act as an activator whereas the less toxic products from the pathway would acts as a repressor.
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