Catching the waves: following the leading edge of elongating RNA polymerase II

Telmo Henriques; Karen Adelman

doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2013.04.009

Catching the waves: following the leading edge of elongating RNA polymerase II

Mol Cell. 2013 Apr 25;50(2):159-60. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2013.04.009.

Authors

Telmo Henriques¹, Karen Adelman

Affiliation

¹ Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA.

Abstract

By precisely tracking the waves of elongating RNA polymerase II (Pol II) during gene activation, Danko et al. (2013), in this issue of Molecular Cell, discovered a surprising diversity of elongation rates among and along human genes.

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Grants and funding

ZIA ES101987-07/Intramural NIH HHS/United States