Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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Author: Leland Hartwell Dr., Michael L. Goldberg Professor Dr., Janice Fischer, Leroy Hood Dr.
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Chapter 16, Problem 31P
Among the structurally simplest riboswitches are the two so-called purine riboswitches, one of which responds to guanine, and the other to adenine. The accompanying diagram shows a guanine riboswitch. Base-pairing between free guanine and a particular cytosine residue within the aptamer determines the riboswitch conformation.
| a. | What condition in the cellular environment would favor each of the riboswitch configurations? |
| b. | In B. subtilis, guanine riboswitches are located in 5 different transcription units containing 17 different genes. Based on the diagram and your answer to part (a), what biological processes do you think these 17 genes might be involved in? Explain your reasoning. |
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