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ReviewCritical reviews in biochemistry and molecular biology2011

Archaeal RNA polymerase and transcription regulation.

Sung-Hoon Jun, Matthew J Reichlen, Momoko Tajiri, Katsuhiko S Murakami

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Review in Critical reviews in biochemistry and molecular biology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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34 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. In Vivo RNA Chemical Footprinting Analysis in Archaea.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  4. Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  6. Eukaryotic RNA Polymerases: The Many Ways to Transcribe a Gene.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2021
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  10. Archaeal transcription.Transcription · 2020
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  19. Gene regulation of two ferredoxin:NADPExtremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2017
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sung-Hoon JunDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
Matthew J Reichlen
Momoko Tajiri
Katsuhiko S Murakami

Funding

X-Ray Crystallographic Studies of Multi-Subunit Nucleic Acid PolymerasesR01GM087350 · NIGMS · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · PI MURAKAMI, KATSUHIKO · 2010 to 2018
$2.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM087350NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM087350
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To elucidate the mechanism of transcription by cellular RNA polymerases (RNAPs), high-resolution X-ray crystal structures together with structure-guided biochemical, biophysical, and genetics studies are essential. The recently solved X-ray crystal structures of archaeal RNAP allow a structural comparison of the transcription machinery among all three domains of life. The archaea were once thought of closely related to bacteria, but they are now considered to be more closely related to the eukaryote at the molecular level than bacteria. According to these structures, the archaeal transcription apparatus, which includes RNAP and general transcription factors (GTFs), is similar to the eukaryotic transcription machinery. Yet, the transcription regulators, activators and repressors, encoded by archaeal genomes are closely related to bacterial factors. Therefore, archaeal transcription appears to possess an intriguing hybrid of eukaryotic-type transcription apparatus and bacterial-like regulatory mechanisms. Elucidating the transcription mechanism in archaea, which possesses a combination of bacterial and eukaryotic transcription mechanisms that are commonly regarded as separate and mutually exclusive, can provide data that will bring basic transcription mechanisms across all life forms.

Indexed as

Archaeal ProteinsDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesTranscription, GeneticArchaeaBacteriaCrystallography, X-RayEukaryotaGene Expression Regulation, ArchaealRNA, ArchaealTranscription Factors, GeneralArchaeal ProteinsDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesRNA, ArchaealTranscription Factors, General

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PMID21250781
PMCPMC3076279

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