Dynamics and logic of promoter melting

RNA polymerase clamp conformational dynamics: long-lived states and modulation by crowding, cations, and nonspecific DNA binding

(2021) Abhishek Mazumder et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Transcription initiation at a consensus bacterial promoter proceeds via a ‘bind-unwind-load-and-lock’ mechanism

(2021) Abhishek Mazumder et al.   eLife

Stepwise Promoter Melting by Bacterial RNA Polymerase

(2020) James Chen et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Structures of an RNA polymerase promoter melting intermediate elucidate DNA unwinding

(2019) Hande Boyaci et al.   NATURE

E. coli TraR allosterically regulates transcription initiation by altering RNA polymerase conformation

(2019) James Chen et al.   eLife

Structural Basis of Transcription Inhibition by Fidaxomicin (Lipiarmycin A3)

(2018) Wei Lin et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Structures of Bacterial RNA Polymerase Complexes Reveal the Mechanism of DNA Loading and Transcription Initiation

(2018) Robert Glyde et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Promoter Distortion and Opening in the RNA Polymerase II Cleft

(2018) Christian Dienemann et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Transcription without XPB Establishes a Unified Helicase-Independent Mechanism of Promoter Opening in Eukaryotic Gene Expression

(2017) Sergey Alekseev et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

RNA polymerase motions during promoter melting

(2017) Andrey Feklistov et al.   SCIENCE

Structural Basis for Promoter −10 Element Recognition by the Bacterial RNA Polymerase σ Subunit

(2011) Andrey Feklistov et al.   CELL