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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Structural basis of σ

Forson Gao, Fuzhou Ye, Bowen Zhang, Nora Cronin, Martin Buck, Xiaodong Zhang

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Forson GaoSection of Structural and Synthetic Biology, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Fuzhou YeSection of Structural and Synthetic Biology, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-4724-1533
Bowen ZhangSection of Structural and Synthetic Biology, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Nora CroninLondon Consortium for High Resolution cryoEM, the Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, United Kingdom.
Martin BuckDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-7580-8982
Xiaodong ZhangSection of Structural and Synthetic Biology, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-9786-7038
Imperial College London · GBThe Francis Crick Institute · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene transcription is a fundamental cellular process carried out by RNA polymerase (RNAP). Transcription initiation is highly regulated, and in bacteria, transcription initiation is mediated by sigma (σ) factors. σ recruits RNAP to the promoter DNA region, located upstream of the transcription start site (TSS) and facilitates open complex formation, where double-stranded DNA is opened up into a transcription bubble and template strand DNA is positioned inside RNAP for initial RNA synthesis. During initial transcription, RNAP remains bound to σ and upstream DNA, presumably with an enlarging transcription bubble. The release of RNAP from upstream DNA is required for promoter escape and processive transcription elongation. Bacteria sigma factors can be broadly separated into two classes with the majority belonging to the σ

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Escherichia coliTranscription, GeneticBacteriaCryoelectron MicroscopyDNADNA, BacterialDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesPromoter Regions, GeneticRNASigma FactorDNADNA, BacterialDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesRNASigma Factorcryo-electron microscopyRNA polymerasetranscription initiationσ54σ factor

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PMID38170755
PMCPMC10786286
OpenAlexW4390533623

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