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1. Describe the process of Transcription; what is the purpose? 2. What are the differences between DNA and RNA? 3. What are the enzymes and proteins involved in Transcription and what do they do? 4. How is Transcription initiated? 5. How is RNA synthesized? 6. Explain some of the critical differences between DNA replication by DNA polymerase and RNA transcription by RNA polymerase. 7. How is the primary RNA transcript processed to create mRNA? The Central Dogma, Differences between DNA and RNA, Transcription, Transcription Initiation, Elongation, The DNA sequence elements, enzymes, and proteins involved in Transcription, Promoter and Terminator, Transcription Factors, Enhancer sequence, Transcription Activator Protein, Mediator Complex of Proteins, RNA Polymerase, RNA Processing: 5’ Cap, Polyadenylation, RNA Splicing, Intron, Exon, Alternative Splicing

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Transcription Lecture 3 M2
Transcription RNAprocessing

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thesugar in RNA is ribose whichcarries
a hydroxyl groupon 2 carbon
DNA has deoxyribose H on 2 carbon explston
uracil lus in RNA replaces thymine t inDNA
uhas itwhere has cha
mostRNA molecules in thecellaresinglestranded DNAdoublestranded
RNAmolecules canfoldinto complex 3Dstructures foldedstructures canserve
as catalysts in biochemicalreactions
Transcription
DNAunwinds andisused as atemplate forRNA transcriptsynthesis intron noncoding sequence
ribonucleoside triphosphatesare added complementary exoncodingsequence
insequenceto theDNAtemplateaccordingtobase
pairingrules buttranscripthas uinsteadof T
RNA addsnucleotidesribonucleoside
polymerase
triphosphates in 5 3 direction likeDNA
Transcriptioninitiationandtermination
promotershortDNA nfewhundredbp whereRNApolymerase andassociatedproteinsbind to
DNA
inmanyeukaryotic andarchaealp romoters the promoterincludes a TATAbox
transcriptiontakesplace v25nucleotides downstream of TATAbox
terminator transcriptionstops attheterminator andthetranscript isreleased


proteinsinvolved
sigmafactor in bacteriaassociates w RNApolymerase
andfacilitates itsbinding w specificpromoters
generaltranscriptionfactors in eukaryotes a class of
transcriptionfactors that bindsto promoters equenceto
initiate transcription transcription requires combined
action of at least6 proteinsof generaltranscriptionfactors

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mediatorcomplexof proteins RNApolymerasecolmplex
initiatestranscription enzyme that catalyzes ren that
recruitsRNA polymerase tothepromoter synthesizesRNAfromDNAtemplate in
in somemodels mediatorconnects transcription eukaryotes RNApolymerasecomplex
factors w RNApolymerase complexto responsible for transcription of protein
initiatetranscription codinggenes is called poill
RNA polymerase
RNApolymerase complextranscriptionbubbleforms transcriptiontakes
payge
complex contains structuralfeatures that separateDNAstrands allowing
trynscriptigable paired RNADNA to
region form
elongation oftranscriptoccurswithin polymerasecomplexnucleotidebynucleotide
strands Elifftriffemplate doesn'thaveproofreadingfunctionlikeDNApolymerase
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so errorrate is higherthan DNApolymerase

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