Nurturing Life Sciences
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Uncompetitive inhibitors bind only to the enzyme-substrate complex and not to the free enzyme.
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#Unit 12. Applied Biology
The major form of Hg in the atmosphere is elemental mercury (Hg0 ), which is volatile and is oxidized to mercuric ion (Hg2+) photochemically. Most mercury thus enters aquatic environments as Hg2+.
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In the absence of Hg2+, MerR functions as a repressor and binds to the operator region of the mer operon, thus preventing transcription of the structural genes.
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