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When an inducer molecule attaches to the repressor protein what happens to the repressor protein?

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The inducer deactivates the repressor protein. This allows the gene which the repressor protein suppresses, to be actively transcribed. When the inducer fits in its allosteric site on the repressor protein, the repressor changes conformation and is not able to bind the operator site of the operon.






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