Transcription

Overview

• General Features - TABLE
• Prokaryotes
  • RNA Polymerase
  • Sequences in Promoters - HERE
  • Chain of Events - HERE (Initiation / Termination / Elongation)
  • Chain Termination
    • Factor Independent - HERE
    • Factor Dependent - HERE
  • Regulation
    • Sigma Factors
    • Transcription Factors
    • Promoter Sequence Elements - HERE
    • Operons
      • Lac Operon
        • Structure - HERE
        • Repression - HERE
        • Catabolite Repression - HERE
      • Trp Operon
        • Structure - HERE
        • Attentuation - HERE
• Eukaryotes
  • 3 Polymerases
  • Pol II Subunits - TABLE
  • Pol II Promoters - HERE
    • Initiation Factors - TABLE
      • Process - HERE
      • TBP bending of DNA
  • Transcription Regulation
    • Enhancers - HERE
      • Response Elements - TABLE

DNA Binding Proteins

• Binding Domains (Motifs)
  • Helix-turn-helix - HERE
  • Zinc-Fingers - HERE / HERE
  • Leucine Zipper - HERE

Post-Transcriptional Modification of RNA

• tRNA
• mRNA
  • Caps in Eukaryotes - HERE
  • Polyadenylation
• Split Genes and Splicing in Eukaryotes - HERE / HERE
• Ribozymes and Self-Splicing