Transcription in cyanobacteria: a distinctive machinery and putative mechanisms

Toolboxes for cyanobacteria: Recent advances and future direction

(2018) Tao Sun et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Pausing controls branching between productive and non-productive pathways during initial transcription in bacteria

(2018) David Dulin et al.   Nature Communications

The alternative sigma factor SigF is a key player in the control of secretion mechanisms in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

(2018) Carlos Flores et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Group 2 Sigma Factors are Central Regulators of Oxidative Stress Acclimation in Cyanobacteria

(2018) Kaisa Hakkila et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

ACreTranscription Fidelity Reporter Identifies GreA as a Major RNA Proofreading Factor inEscherichia coli

(2017) Mikhail G. Bubunenko et al.   GENETICS

The transcription fidelity factor GreA impedes DNA break repair

(2017) Priya Sivaramakrishnan et al.   NATURE

Acclimation to High CO 2 Requires the ω Subunit of the RNA Polymerase in Synechocystis

(2017) Juha Kurkela et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Trigger loop dynamics can explain stimulation of intrinsic termination by bacterial RNA polymerase without terminator hairpin contact

(2017) Ananya Ray-Soni et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Trigger loop of RNA polymerase is a positional, not acid–base, catalyst for both transcription and proofreading

(2017) Tatiana V. Mishanina et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Redox crisis underlies conditional light–dark lethality in cyanobacterial mutants that lack the circadian regulator, RpaA

(2017) Spencer Diamond et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Structural basis of transcription arrest by coliphage HK022 Nun in an Escherichia coli RNA polymerase elongation complex

(2017) Jin Young Kang et al.   eLife

Switching of metabolic programs in response to light availability is an essential function of the cyanobacterial circadian output pathway

(2017) Anna M Puszynska et al.   eLife

ACreTranscription Fidelity Reporter Identifies GreA as a Major RNA Proofreading Factor inEscherichia coli

(2017) Mikhail G. Bubunenko et al.   GENETICS

The Great Oxidation Event

(2016) Richard Blaustein   BIOSCIENCE

Tiny Microbes with a Big Impact: The Role of Cyanobacteria and Their Metabolites in Shaping Our Future

(2016) Sophie Mazard et al.   Marine Drugs

Cyanobacteria: A Precious Bio-resource in Agriculture, Ecosystem, and Environmental Sustainability

(2016) Jay Shankar Singh et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Mathematical Modelling of Plankton–Oxygen Dynamics Under the Climate Change

(2015) Yadigar Sekerci et al.   BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

In vivorecruitment analysis and a mutant strain without any group 2 σ factor reveal roles of different σ factors in cyanobacteria

(2015) Satu Koskinen et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Genome Engineering in Cyanobacteria: Where We Are and Where We Need To Go

(2015) C. Josh Ramey et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Trigger-helix folding pathway and SI3 mediate catalysis and hairpin-stabilized pausing by Escherichia coli RNA polymerase

(2014) Tricia A. Windgassen et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The omega subunit of the RNA polymerase core directs transcription efficiency in cyanobacteria

(2014) Liisa Gunnelius et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Spatial organization of transcription machinery and its segregation from the replisome in fast-growing bacterial cells

(2014) Cedric Cagliero et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Five checkpoints maintaining the fidelity of transcription by RNA polymerases in structural and energetic details

(2014) Beibei Wang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Control of transcription elongation by GreA determines rate of gene expression in Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2014) Yulia Yuzenkova et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

RHON1 Mediates a Rho-Like Activity for Transcription Termination in Plastids ofArabidopsis thaliana

(2014) Wei Chi et al.   PLANT CELL

The ω Subunit of RNA Polymerase Is Essential for Thermal Acclimation of the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis Sp. PCC 6803

(2014) Liisa Gunnelius et al.   PLoS One

Circadian Control of Global Gene Expression by the Cyanobacterial Master Regulator RpaA

(2013) Joseph S. Markson et al.   CELL

Insights into the Mechanism of Initial Transcription inEscherichia coliRNA Polymerase

(2013) Satamita Samanta et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

An Insertion in the Catalytic Trigger Loop Gates the Secondary Channel of RNA Polymerase

(2012) Ran Furman et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The Ability of Cyanobacterial Cells to Restore UV-B Radiation Induced Damage to Photosystem II is Influenced by Photolyase Dependent DNA Repair

(2012) István-Zoltán Vass et al.   PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY

Spatial and Temporal Organization of Chromosome Duplication and Segregation in the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942

(2012) Anna H. Chen et al.   PLoS One

Linking RNA Polymerase Backtracking to Genome Instability in E. coli

(2011) Dipak Dutta et al.   CELL

Bacterial Transcription Terminators: The RNA 3′-End Chronicles

(2011) Jason M. Peters et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Co-directional replication–transcription conflicts lead to replication restart

(2011) Houra Merrikh et al.   NATURE

Controlled interplay between trigger loop and Gre factor in the RNA polymerase active centre

(2011) M. Roghanian et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The SigB   Factor Regulates Multiple Salt Acclimation Responses of the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

(2011) H.-L. Nikkinen et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

A high resolution map of a cyanobacterial transcriptome

(2011) Vikram Vijayan et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Stepwise mechanism for transcription fidelity

(2010) Yulia Yuzenkova et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Central role of the RNA polymerase trigger loop in intrinsic RNA hydrolysis

(2010) Y. Yuzenkova et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Occurrence, divergence and evolution of intrinsic terminators across Eubacteria

(2009) Anirban Mitra et al.   GENOMICS

Role of the RNA polymerase trigger loop in catalysis and pausing

(2009) Jinwei Zhang et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

ChlH, the H subunit of the Mg-chelatase, is an anti-sigma factor for SigE in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

(2009) T. Osanai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Oscillations in supercoiling drive circadian gene expression in cyanobacteria

(2009) Vikram Vijayan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The RNA Polymerase II Trigger Loop Functions in Substrate Selection and Is Directly Targeted by α-Amanitin

(2008) Craig D. Kaplan et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Stringent promoter recognition and autoregulation by the group 3  -factor SigF in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803

(2008) M. Asayama et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Group 2 sigma factors in cyanobacteria

(2008) Takashi Osanai et al.   PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM

Characterization of Single and Double Inactivation Strains Reveals New Physiological Roles for Group 2   Factors in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

(2008) M. Pollari et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY