Transcriptional Infidelity

Transcriptional Infidelity
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RNA polymerase just can't help itself. In the top panel, it's checking out "the gene of interest" while completely ignoring its current partner. But introduce a repressor gene in the bottom panel, and suddenly RNA polymerase is all "sorry, can't transcribe you right now, I'm busy being inhibited." Classic molecular commitment issues. This is basically transcriptional infidelity at the cellular level. Happens in every petri dish.

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