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Nature Genetics 39, 1421 - 1422 (2007)
doi:10.1038/ng1207-1421

Stalled polymerases and transcriptional regulation

John W Tamkun1

  1. John W. Tamkun is in the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA. e-mail: tamkun@biology.ucsc.edu


After initiating transcription, RNA polymerase II often stalls a short distance downstream of promoters. The recent discovery of stalled polymerases at a large number of eukaryotic promoters suggests that the regulation of stalling plays a more important role in gene expression and development than previously suspected.

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