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terminator: a standalone construct

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terminator1 CONSTRUCTTranscription terminatorROBERTS · RHO

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Molecular biology

The DNA signal that stops transcription

In molecular biology a terminator is the signal that tells RNA polymerase to stop transcription and release the finished RNA, either as an intrinsic hairpin-and-U-tract that destabilises the transcription complex or through the action of a protein factor. Roberts's 1969 Termination factor for RNA synthesis discovered the Rho factor, the protein that drives one major class of such termination in bacteria. The referent is a sequence-encoded stop signal that bounds a transcription unit, located by where transcripts end, and it has nothing to do with a boundary on a planet's surface or the byte that ends a string.[1]

Unit
The DNA/RNA signal, and its position, at which transcription stops and the transcript is released
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Located from the 3' ends of transcripts and by termination-efficiency and run-off assays

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References

  1. Roberts, J. W. (1969). Termination factor for RNA synthesis. Nature, 224(5225), 1168–1174. https://doi.org/10.1038/2241168a0

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