Publication Date:
1994-11-04
Description:
Transcription terminators recognized by several RNA polymerases include a DNA segment encoding uridine-rich RNA and, for bacterial RNA polymerase, a hairpin loop located immediately upstream. Here, mutationally altered Escherichia coli RNA polymerase enzymes that have different termination efficiencies were used to show that the extent of transcription through the uridine-rich encoding segment is controlled by the substrate concentration of nucleoside triphosphate. This result implies that the rate of elongation determines the probability of transcript release. Moreover, the position of release sites suggests an important spatial relation between the RNA hairpin and the boundary of the terminator.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉McDowell, J C -- Roberts, J W -- Jin, D J -- Gross, C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Nov 4;266(5186):822-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Section of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7526463" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Base Sequence
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DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases/genetics/*metabolism
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Escherichia coli/enzymology/genetics
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Mutation
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Nucleic Acid Conformation
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Nucleotides/metabolism
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RNA, Bacterial/*genetics/metabolism
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*Terminator Regions, Genetic
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*Transcription, Genetic
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Uridine Triphosphate/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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