Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals
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...the nuclear export and translation processes as well.
Figure 2: The conserved eukaryotic polyadenylation...due to the presence of additional helper sequences (2-3).
As alluded to above, termination and polyadenylation...transcriptional unit (such as a gene) and initiate the process of releasing the newly synthesized RNA from the...terminator also plays an important role in RNA processing and contributes to variability in RNA half-life...Although mostly thought of as a eukaryotic-specific process, prokaryotes also add poly(A) tails to certain ...studied as prokaryotic termination, the basic processes for eukaryotic termination are understood and ...to terminate transcription. Polymerase I uses a process similar to the prokaryotic Rho-dependent mechanism...