Researchers have found a new example of how the machinery that controls the transcription of DNA to messenger RNA (mRNA) is tailored to specific cells or genes. September 14, 2001 -- Researchers have ...

Researchers found that in the model organism E. coli, the fidelity of transcribing DNA comes at the expense of DNA repair. A groundbreaking and surprising discovery provides a major conceptual change ...

Antisense transcripts are widespread and are found in all kingdoms of life. Their expression can be regulated either coordinately or independently of their neighbouring genes. Antisense transcripts ...

RNA Polymerase (shown in blue) moves across a template strand of DNA (shown in purple) and transcribes it into RNA (shown in red). But DNA damage blocks the RNA polymerase, causing it to stall and ...

Transcription and replication occur at high frequency in cells. As they share the same DNA template, a high incidence of encounters is expected between the transcription and replication machineries, ...