EM, researchers showed that water mediates catalysis and important protein interactions for RNA polymerase II function in ...

One of the first-ever images of the open complex that forms when RNAP encounters DNA and kicks off the process of transcription. Every living cell transcribes DNA into RNA. This process begins when an ...

Researchers have uncovered a previously hidden layer of complexity in how genes are activated, showing that water molecules ...

Every living cell transcribes DNA into RNA. This process begins when an enzyme called RNA polymerase (RNAP) clamps onto DNA. Within a few hundred milliseconds, the DNA double helix unwinds to form a ...

RNA polymerase, the enzyme that synthesizes RNA from DNA during transcription, has been captured mid-reaction for the first ...

Molecular biologists have long believed that the beginning of a gene launched the process of transcription—the process by which a segment of DNA is copied into RNA and then RNA helps make the proteins ...