Science news articles about 'transcribing machine'

... about fidelity in all cellular genetic copying machines. They said their discoveries also offer understanding of how defective Pol II can generate errors in transcribing mRNA—errors that can promote ...

... II), slide along the DNA's double helix, reading the genetic code and transcribing it into RNA, which is used as a blueprint to build proteins or as a switch to regulate other genes. The measurements ...

... thought. Scientists now show that the real process is replete with long pauses and backsliding as the machine -- RNA polymerase II -- tries to negotiate the nucleosomes that tightly wrap DNA in the ...