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
• ykzG
• 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
• YvrI-YvrH: (composite sigma factor)

Transcription elongation/ termination

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

Important publications

Evert-Jan Blom, Anja N J A Ridder, Andrzej T Lulko, Jos B T M Roerdink, Oscar P Kuipers
Time-resolved transcriptomics and bioinformatic analyses reveal intrinsic stress responses during batch culture of Bacillus subtilis.
PLoS One: 2011, 6(11);e27160
[PubMed:22087258] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Houra Merrikh, Cristina Machón, William H Grainger, Alan D Grossman, Panos Soultanas
Co-directional replication-transcription conflicts lead to replication restart.
Nature: 2011, 470(7335);554-7
[PubMed:21350489] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)