Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals
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Blog Post
...of a messenger RNA transcript. The purpose and mechanism of polyadenylation vary across cell types, but...Prokaryotic termination
Prokaryotic termination mechanisms fall under two general categories: rho-dependent...transcriptional read-through. Chris Voigt’s lab has characterized a set of prokaryotic terminators and deposited... tails to certain RNAs. Unlike the eukaryotic mechanism which requires a consensus sequence for the addition...and may additionally act as a quality control mechanism to rid the cell of mis-folded RNAs.
Eukaryotic...dependent, Polymerases I and II employ different mechanisms to terminate transcription. Polymerase I uses...process similar to the prokaryotic Rho-dependent mechanism, whereas Polymerase II termination is more complex...