Scientists find transcription by committee. (genetic transcription mechanisms) From: Science News | Date: April 2, 1994| Author: Pennisi, Elizabeth | COPYRIGHT 1994 Science Service, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Anyone curious about how embryos develop, how cancers arise, or even how cells function from day to day must wonder about the transcription of genes. Organisms store the construction plans for proteins in genes. Enzymes called RNA polymerases then retrieve those plans by creating an RNA molecule that matches a particular gene's DNA. The transcribed RNA relays the specifics of the plans to ribosomes, giant cellular complexes that make proteins.

But RNA polymerases do not ...

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