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ReviewNucleic acids research2021

Basic mechanisms and kinetics of pause-interspersed transcript elongation.

Jin Qian, David Dunlap, Laura Finzi

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Review in Nucleic acids research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. RfaH licenses RNA polymerase for long-range transcription.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  7. An ensemble of interconverting conformations of the elemental paused transcription complex creates regulatory options.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  8. The life and death of RNA across temperatures.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jin QianPhysics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30307, USA.
David DunlapPhysics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30307, USA.
Laura FinziPhysics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30307, USA.

Funding

The lambda bacteriophage regulatory loopR01GM084070 · NIGMS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI FINZI, LAURA · 2009 to 2021
$4.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM084070
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA polymerase pausing during elongation is an important mechanism in the regulation of gene expression. Pausing along DNA templates is thought to be induced by distinct signals encoded in the nucleic acid sequence and halt elongation complexes to allow time for necessary co-transcriptional events. Pausing signals have been classified as those producing short-lived elemental, long-lived backtracked, or hairpin-stabilized pauses. In recent years, structural microbiology and single-molecule studies have significantly advanced our understanding of the paused states, but the dynamics of these states are still uncertain, although several models have been proposed to explain the experimentally observed pausing behaviors. This review summarizes present knowledge about the paused states, discusses key discrepancies among the kinetic models and their basic assumptions, and highlights the importance and challenges in constructing theoretical models that may further our biochemical understanding of transcriptional pausing.

Indexed as

Models, GeneticTranscription Elongation, GeneticBacterial ProteinsCatalytic DomainCrystallography, X-RayDNA, BacterialDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesEscherichia coli ProteinsKineticsModels, MolecularNucleic Acid ConformationProtein ConformationRNA, BacterialThermus thermophilusTime FactorsBacterial ProteinsDNA, BacterialDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesEscherichia coli ProteinsRNA, Bacterial

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PMID33330935
PMCPMC7797061

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