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Lecture 16: Transcription and RNA Processing Reading Assignment: Chapter 39, pgs. 435-451; Harper’s Biochemistry (25 th edition).
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Lecture 16: Transcription and RNA Processing Reading Assignment: Chapter 39, pgs. 435-451; Harper’s Biochemistry (25th edition). Objective: To understand the mechanism of RNA synthesis in procaryotic and eucarytoic cells and be able to use this information to compare and contrast this process in bacteria and man. I. General characterisitics A. Start sites B. Direction C. Stop sites II. Molecular anatomy of a gene A. Procaryotic gene B. Eucaryotic gene III. Enzyme involved in transcription A. Procaryotic RNA polymerase B. Eucaryotic RNA polymerases IV. RNA processing A. Introns and exons B. snRNPs C. self-splicing RNAs