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1.) How does regulation by antisense RNA differ from that of riboswtiches?

2.) Describe how transcriptional attenuation works. What is actually being "attenuated"?
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1.) How does regulation by antisense RNA differ from that of riboswtiches?

Antisense RNA is a single-stranded RNA that is complementary to a messenger RNA (mRNA) strand transcribed within a cell. Antisense RNA may be introduced into a cell to inhibit translation of a complementary mRNA by base pairing to it and physically obstructing the translation machinery. In molecular biology, a riboswitch is a part of an mRNA molecule that can directly bind a small target molecule, and whose binding of the target affects the gene's activity. Thus, an mRNA that contains a riboswitch is directly involved in regulating its own activity, in response to the concentrations of its target molecule.
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