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  • Title: Abortive initiation by bacteriophage T3 and T7 RNA polymerases under conditions of limiting substrate.
    Author: Ling ML, Risman SS, Klement JF, McGraw N, McAllister WT.
    Journal: Nucleic Acids Res; 1989 Feb 25; 17(4):1605-18. PubMed ID: 2646596.
    Abstract:
    Initiation of RNA synthesis by the phage polymerases is abortive if the concentration of pyrimidine triphosphates is limiting. Under abortive initiation conditions the polymerases repeatedly initiate transcription but produce ribooligonucleotides that terminate just prior to the first occurrence of the limiting substrate. Abortive initiation is most severe if the limiting substrate occurs within the first 8-12 nucleotides of the nascent RNA chain and is particularly evident when UMP is limiting. The formation of stable elongation complexes (as determined by gel retardation experiments) occurs after the synthesis of an RNA product 8-12 nucleotides in length.
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