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Fourteen terminator variants were analyzed by T7 RNA polymerase and we find that not only the hairpin structure itself but also its sequence influences termination. 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Sp6 RNA polymerase shows 63% termination efficiency compared to the 43% termination efficiency of T7 RNA polymerase on thr terminator, and the thr variants have less effect on Sp6 RNA polymerase than on T7 RNA polymerase.","A series of seven deletion variants that successively shorten the deoxyadenosine tract in the terminator template were also analyzed. Results from these experiments with T7 and Sp6 RNA polymerases indicate that complete readthrough occurs when there are four or fewer deoxyadenosine residues. With 5 template deoxyadenosine residues there is 5 percent termination increasing to 32 percent with 8 deoxyadenosines--the value produced by the wild-type terminator. In addition, a comparison with E. coli RNA polymerase shows that bacteriophage RNA polymerases require a more perfect region of dyad symmetry and a longer deoxyadenosine tract than does the bacterial enzyme to terminate with maximum efficiency.","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:47:29Z (GMT). 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