title: Terminators of transcription with RNA polymerase from Escherichia coli: what they look like and how to find them.
abstract: We present here a compilation of prokaryotic transcription terminator sequences (ref. 1-152). The compilation includes 49 independent terminators, 52 speculated independent terminators, 27 sites shown to function in vivo, and some 20 proven or speculated rho-dependent terminators. In addition to the well-known features of independent terminators (dyad symmetry and T-run), two consensus are found: CGGG(C/G) upstream and TCTG downstream of the termination point. A subset of the collection of sequence has been used to construct a computer algorithm to locate independent terminators by sequence analysis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Polymer Research, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Brendel
authors.forename: G H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Hamm
authors.forename: E N
authors.initials: EN
authors.lastname: Trifonov
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001483:Base Sequence; D012321:DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics; D005809:Genes, Regulator; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D013728:Terminator Regions, Genetic; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D012321:DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases