Transcription: RNA Polymerase

Cohen, G. N.

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Transcription: RNA Polymerase

G. N. Cohen²

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At the end of the 1950s Hoagland and Zamecnik had succeeded in obtaining an in vitro protein synthesis from ribosomes and crude acellular extracts. Ribosomes cannot by themselves achieve a specific protein synthesis and require an information originating in last analysis in the genes.

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Cohen, G.N. (2010). Transcription: RNA Polymerase. In: Microbial Biochemistry. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9437-7_15

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