DNA Melting on Yeast RNA Polymerase II Promoters
- 6 August 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 261 (5122), 759-762
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.8342041
Abstract
Transcription-dependent DNA melting on the yeast GAL1 and GAL10 promoters was found to be more closely correlated with the TATA box than the transcription start site. On both these genes, melting begins about 20 base pairs downstream of the TATA box. Physical and genetic analyses suggest that RNA polymerase II associates with this region. Thus, the distance between promoter melting and the TATA box in yeast may be similar to that in higher eukaryotes, even though transcription initiates in a region about 10 to 90 base pairs farther downstream in yeast.Keywords
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