Transcription

Parent categories	3. Information processing 3.2. RNA synthesis and degradation
Neighbouring categories	3.2.1. Transcription 3.2.2. RNA chaperones 3.2.3. DEAD-box RNA helicases 3.2.4. RNases
Related categories	Transcription factors and their control sigma factors RNA polymerase genome-wide analyses
Overview on the categories (Excel file) All genes and their categories (Excel file)

Genes in this functional category

RNA polymerase

• rpoA
• rpoB
• rpoC
• rpoE
• rpoY
• yloH

Sigma factors

• SigA: housekeeping sigma factor
• SigB: general stress sigma factor
• SigD: sigma factor for chemotaxis and motility genes
• SigE: early mother cell-specific sporulation sigma factor
• SigF: early forespore-specific sporulation sigma factor
• SigG: late forespore-specific sporulation sigma factor
• SigH: sigma factor that controls genes of the transition phase
• SigI:
• SigK: late mother cell-specific sporulation sigma factor
• SigL: enhancer-dependent sigma factor (Sigma-54 family)
• SigM: ECF sigma factor, controls genes required at high salt concentrations
• SigV: ECF sigma factor
• SigW: ECF sigma factor, mediates the transcriptional response to cell wall stress PubMed
• SigX: ECF sigma factor
• SigY: ECF sigma factor
• SigZ: ECF sigma factor
• Xpf
• YlaC
• SigO-RsoA: (composite sigma factor)

Transcription elongation/ termination

• greA
• mfd
• nusA
• nusB
• nusG
• rho

Reviews

Georgiy A Belogurov, Irina Artsimovitch
Regulation of Transcript Elongation.
Annu Rev Microbiol: 2015, 69;49-69
[PubMed:26132790] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Julio A Freyre-González, Alejandra M Manjarrez-Casas, Enrique Merino, Mario Martinez-Nuñez, Ernesto Perez-Rueda, Rosa-María Gutiérrez-Ríos
Lessons from the modular organization of the transcriptional regulatory network of Bacillus subtilis.
BMC Syst Biol: 2013, 7;127
[PubMed:24237659] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Lakshminarayan M Iyer, L Aravind
Insights from the architecture of the bacterial transcription apparatus.
J Struct Biol: 2012, 179(3);299-319
[PubMed:22210308] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Thomas J Santangelo, Irina Artsimovitch
Termination and antitermination: RNA polymerase runs a stop sign.
Nat Rev Microbiol: 2011, 9(5);319-29
[PubMed:21478900] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Evgeny Nudler
RNA polymerase active center: the molecular engine of transcription.
Annu Rev Biochem: 2009, 78;335-61
[PubMed:19489723] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

P J Lewis, G P Doherty, J Clarke
Transcription factor dynamics.
Microbiology (Reading): 2008, 154(Pt 7);1837-1844
[PubMed:18599813] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Tanja M Gruber, Carol A Gross
Multiple sigma subunits and the partitioning of bacterial transcription space.
Annu Rev Microbiol: 2003, 57;441-66
[PubMed:14527287] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Sergei Borukhov, Konstantin Severinov
Role of the RNA polymerase sigma subunit in transcription initiation.
Res Microbiol: 2002, 153(9);557-62
[PubMed:12455702] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Paul Gollnick, Paul Babitzke
Transcription attenuation.
Biochim Biophys Acta: 2002, 1577(2);240-50
[PubMed:12213655] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

John D Helmann
The extracytoplasmic function (ECF) sigma factors.
Adv Microb Physiol: 2002, 46;47-110
[PubMed:12073657] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

E Nudler
Transcription elongation: structural basis and mechanisms.
J Mol Biol: 1999, 288(1);1-12
[PubMed:10329121] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

W G Haldenwang
The sigma factors of Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiol Rev: 1995, 59(1);1-30
[PubMed:7708009] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)