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The process of transcribing DNA can itself regulate gene expression in yeast: in the case concerned it is the very act of reading the DNA, not the message produced, that carries out the regulatory job.

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Figure 1: Intergenic transcription and gene regulation.

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Schmitt, S., Paro, R. A reason for reading nonsense.Nature 429, 510–511 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/429510a

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