Gene expression is linked to RNA transcription, which cannot happen without RNA polymerase. However, this is where the similarities between prokaryote and eukaryote expression end. Central to the ...

This study shows that RNA decay rather than the presence of premature termination codons triggers a TA-like response.

Once transcription is initiated, the DNA double helix unwinds and RNA polymerase reads the template strand, adding nucleotides to the 3′ end of the growing chain (Figure 2b). At a temperature of ...

A new method for mapping torsion provides insights into the ways that the genome responds to the torsion generated by RNA polymerase II.

To do so, they used a detergent that leaves RNA polymerase intact while ... Jones’ team obtained chromatin immunoprecipitated DNA fragments to which the signal transducer and activator of ...

Researchers from Northwestern University have stumbled upon a previously unobserved function of a protein found in the cell ...

In the study, published today in Science, the researchers discovered that the amount of a specific enzyme, RNA Polymerase II ... Under Targeted Accessible Chromatin (CUTAC)—focuses on small ...

The genetic information stored in DNA is transcribed into RNA through the process of transcription. In this process, the enzyme RNA polymerase uses one strand of the DNA as a template to synthesize a ...