RNA polymerase
noun
: any of a group of enzymes that promote the synthesis of RNA using DNA or RNA as a template
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By 1989, other researchers had found a way to utilise PCR to generate mRNA from scratch, by amplifying DNA strands and using an enzyme called RNA polymerase to create mRNA molecules from these strands.
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David Cox, WIRED, 2 Dec. 2020
The researchers next set out to understand what caused the RNA polymerase II to stall in older mice.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
Notable new developments in these areas include using computational algorithms to optimize mRNA sequences in ways that enhance their stability and engineering RNA polymerases that introduce fewer side products that may cause an immune response.
—Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
Most viruses that use RNA as their genetic material, including HIV and the hepatitis C virus (HCV), are also highly prone to mutation because the RNA polymerase that replicates their genome doesn’t proofread the copies as effectively as DNA polymerases do.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022
This lets the RNA polymerase travel all the way along the DNA strand, making the sample fluoresce green.
—Susan Cosier, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2020
Those two bindings allow an enzyme called RNA polymerase to glom onto the gene and make a copy of it.
—Alla Katsnelson and Casey Rentz, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2019
For the current study, Zhu and his graduate student Yuan Xu set out to synthesize a mirror-image version of a workhorse enzyme used in molecular biology labs worldwide to synthesize long RNA strands, the T7 RNA polymerase.
—Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 27 Oct. 2022
Amatoxins work by blocking a key enzyme involved in making new proteins, called RNA polymerase type II.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2022
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David Cox, WIRED, 2 Dec. 2020
The researchers next set out to understand what caused the RNA polymerase II to stall in older mice.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
Notable new developments in these areas include using computational algorithms to optimize mRNA sequences in ways that enhance their stability and engineering RNA polymerases that introduce fewer side products that may cause an immune response.
—Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
Most viruses that use RNA as their genetic material, including HIV and the hepatitis C virus (HCV), are also highly prone to mutation because the RNA polymerase that replicates their genome doesn’t proofread the copies as effectively as DNA polymerases do.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022
This lets the RNA polymerase travel all the way along the DNA strand, making the sample fluoresce green.
—Susan Cosier, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2020
Those two bindings allow an enzyme called RNA polymerase to glom onto the gene and make a copy of it.
—Alla Katsnelson and Casey Rentz, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2019
For the current study, Zhu and his graduate student Yuan Xu set out to synthesize a mirror-image version of a workhorse enzyme used in molecular biology labs worldwide to synthesize long RNA strands, the T7 RNA polymerase.
—Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 27 Oct. 2022
Amatoxins work by blocking a key enzyme involved in making new proteins, called RNA polymerase type II.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2022
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“RNA polymerase.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/RNA%20polymerase. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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