RNA polymerases as molecular motors /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Buc, Henri, Strick, Terence
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. : RSC Pub., [2009]
Series:RSC biomolecular sciences.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • There and back again: a structural atlas of RNAP
  • Part I from promoter recognition to promoter escape
  • Where it all begins: an overview of promoter recognition and open complex formation
  • Opening the DNA at the promoter; the energetic challenge
  • Intrinsic in vivo modulators: negative supercoiling and the constituents of the bacterial nucleoid
  • Transcription by RNA polymerases: from initiation to elongation, translocation and strand separation
  • Single-molecule FRET analysis of the path from transcription initiation to elongation
  • Real-time detection of DNA unwinding by Escherichis coli RNAP: from transcription initiation to termination
  • Part II transcription elongation and termination
  • Interlude the engine and the brake
  • Substrate loading, nucleotide addition, and translocation by RNA polymerase
  • Regulation of RNA polymerase through its active center
  • Kinetic modeling of transcription elongation
  • Mechanics of transcription termination
  • Conclusion past, present, and future of single-molecule studies of transcription.