title: A long time in the making--the Nobel Prize for RNA polymerase.
abstract: The 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Roger Kornberg for elucidating the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription. The prize caps a decades-long quest to unlock one of the central mysteries of molecular biology-how RNA transcripts are assembled.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bacteriology, 420 Henry Mall, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA. landick@bact.wisc.edu
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Landick
mesh_terms: D002621:Chemistry; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D015966:Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D009613:Nobel Prize; D012319:RNA Polymerase II / Q000737:chemistry*; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D012319:RNA Polymerase II