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Abstract
RNA polymerase is a ratchet machine that oscillates between productive and backtracked states at numerous DNA positions. Since its first description 15 years ago, backtracking--the reversible sliding of RNA polymerase along DNA and RNA--has been implicated in many critical processes in bacteria and eukaryotes, including the control of transcription elongation, pausing, termination, fidelity, and genome instability.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22726433 PMCID: PMC3815583 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.06.003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell ISSN: 0092-8674 Impact factor: 41.582