attenuation
The response of the synthesis of bacterial mRNA to the nutritional state of the organism, e.g. the decrease in transcription of the trp operon in the presence of tryptophan, which is due to the incomplete transcription of a leader mRNA sequence coded for by the attenuator sequence.
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