THE RNA POLYMERASE-II MOLECULE AT THE 5' END OF THE UNINDUCED HSP70 GENE OF DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER IS TRANSCRIPTIONALLY ENGAGED
THE RNA POLYMERASE-II MOLECULE AT THE 5' END OF THE UNINDUCED HSP70 GENE OF DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER IS TRANSCRIPTIONALLY ENGAGED
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DOI:
10.1016/s0092-8674(88)91087-2
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发表时间:
1988-09-09
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影响因子:
64.5
通讯作者:
LIS, JT
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作者:
ROUGVIE, AE;LIS, JT
Protein-DNA cross-linking of cultured Drosophila cells has shown that, in vivo, prior to the induction of heat shock, there is approximately one molecule of RNA polymerase I associated with the promoter region of the major heat shock gene, hsp70. Here, we show that this promoter-associated RNA polymerase II molecule is transcriptionally engaged and has formed a nascent RNA chain of approximately 25 nucleotides in length, but is apparently arrested at that point and unable to penetrate further into the hsp70 gene without heat induction. The detection of post-initiation RNA polymerase complex on the promoter region of the inactive gene suggests that there is a transcriptional control mechanism that acts as a step early in transcript elongation.