BIOL 3060 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Consensus Sequence, Tata Box, Chromatin

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Holoenzyme (with sigma factor) will bind to -10 and -35 consensus sequences. Core enzyme changes conformation and starts unwinding dsdna. Rna polymerase is at +1 (start site of transcription). Moving the consensus sequences can alter start site. The 5" end of the rna does not need to be cleaved, so have a ribonucleotide triphosphate instead. Rna polymerase generates short fragments while still bound and aborts them. Rna pol has conformational shift -> can"t bind to consensus sequences. Rna polymerase has helicase activity and unwinds downstream, also rewinds it upstream again. ssdna is used as a template (template strand). Can have transcriptional pausing which is when secondary structures in rna can have rna polymerase pause in elongation. Rna pol has proofreading ability and goes back two nucleotides and begins again. Rna pol adds nucleotides to the 3" end of rna molecule until it transcribes a terminator.

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