Mechanisms of bacterial transcription termination: all good things must end

A Ray-Soni, MJ Bellecourt… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Transcript termination is essential for accurate gene expression and the removal of RNA
polymerase (RNAP) at the ends of transcription units. In bacteria, two mechanisms are …

Coupling of RNA polymerase II transcription elongation with pre-mRNA splicing

T Saldi, MA Cortazar, RM Sheridan… - Journal of molecular …, 2016 - Elsevier
Pre-mRNA maturation frequently occurs at the same time and place as transcription by RNA
polymerase II. The co-transcriptionality of mRNA processing has permitted the evolution of …

Native elongating transcript sequencing reveals human transcriptional activity at nucleotide resolution

A Mayer, J Di Iulio, S Maleri, U Eser, J Vierstra… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Major features of transcription by human RNA polymerase II (Pol II) remain poorly defined
due to a lack of quantitative approaches for visualizing Pol II progress at nucleotide …

A trailing ribosome speeds up RNA polymerase at the expense of transcript fidelity via force and allostery

LM Wee, AB Tong, AJ Florez Ariza… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
In prokaryotes, translation can occur on mRNA that is being transcribed in a process called
coupling. How the ribosome affects the RNA polymerase (RNAP) during coupling is not well …

Mechanisms of bacterial transcription termination

JW Roberts - Journal of molecular biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Bacterial transcription termination, described mostly for Escherichia coli, occurs in three
recognized ways: intrinsic termination, an activity only of the core RNAP enzyme and …

The pausing zone and control of RNA polymerase II elongation by Spt5: Implications for the pause-release model

N Fong, RM Sheridan, S Ramachandran, DL Bentley - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
The pause-release model of transcription proposes that 40–100 bases from the start site
RNA Pol II pauses, followed by release into productive elongation. Pause release is …

Transcription-translation coupling in bacteria

GM Blaha, JT Wade - Annual Review of Genetics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
In bacteria, transcription and translation take place in the same cellular compartment.
Therefore, a messenger RNA can be translated as it is being transcribed, a process known …

Initial events in bacterial transcription initiation

EF Ruff, MT Record Jr, I Artsimovitch - Biomolecules, 2015 - mdpi.com
Transcription initiation is a highly regulated step of gene expression. Here, we discuss the
series of large conformational changes set in motion by initial specific binding of bacterial …

Structural basis for NusA stabilized transcriptional pausing

X Guo, AG Myasnikov, J Chen, C Crucifix, G Papai… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
Transcriptional pausing by RNA polymerases (RNAPs) is a key mechanism to regulate gene
expression in all kingdoms of life and is a prerequisite for transcription termination. The …

RNA polymerase accommodates a pause RNA hairpin by global conformational rearrangements that prolong pausing

JY Kang, TV Mishanina, MJ Bellecourt, RA Mooney… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
Sequence-specific pausing by RNA polymerase (RNAP) during transcription plays crucial
and diverse roles in gene expression. In bacteria, RNA structures are thought to fold within …