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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes
The E. coli rrn promoters are also regulated by a pair of small molecules: the initiating NTP (the iNTP) and an alarmone, guanosine 5 -diphosphate 3-diphosphate (ppGpp). An abundance of iNTP indicates that the concentration of nucleotides is high, and therefore it is appropriate to synthesize plenty of rRNA.