Deciding the fate of a stalled RNA polymerase
Ever wondered what happens when the transcription machinery runs into a DNA lesion or a protein roadblock? Alexandra M. Deaconescu, corresponding author and research associate in the Grigorieff...
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To utilize the information contained within a cell’s genes, the enzyme RNA polymerase must find the beginning of each gene (the promoter). Finding the beginning is a prodigious task: RNAP must start...
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