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?

regulation of gene expression. gene expression can be regulated by various cellular processes with the aim to control the amount and nature of the expressed genes. these regulatory proteins bind to dna and send signals that indirectly control the rate of gene expression

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