Essentials of Molecular Biology

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Transcription

CONCEPT OUTLINE

• Introduction
• Differences between Replication and Transcription
• Chemistry of Transcription
• RNA Polymerase of Prokaryotes
• The Sigma Subunit
• Promoters
  • Promoter types

     

• Prokaryotic Transcription
  • Binding of RNA polymerase
  • DNA foot printing
  • Transcriptional events
  • Termination
• Eukaryotic RNA Polymerases
  • RNA polymerase-I
  • RNA polymerase-II
  • RNA polymerase-III
  • Template-Independent RNA polymerases
  • Mechanism of action of RNA pol-II
• Transcriptional Events of Eukaryotic RNA
  • Class-I transcriptional units
  • Class-II transcription units
  • Class-III transcriptional unit
  • Transcription of tRNA gene
  • Transcription of 5S rRNA gene
• Post-Transcriptional Modifications
  • mRNA processing
  • RNA editing
  • RNA editing of apoB mRNA
  • Processing ...