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  • 80006000418215640003000121193919201440410900PublicAssets/2484NIGMS-funded researchers led by Roger Kornberg solved the structure of RNA polymerase II. This is the enzyme in mammalian cells that catalyzes the transcription of DNA into messenger RNA, the molecule that in turn dictates the order of amino acids in proteins. For his work on the mechanisms of mammalian transcription, Kornberg received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006.David Bushnell, Ken Westover and Roger Kornberg, Stanford UniversityDavid Bushnell, Ken Westover and Roger Kornberg, Stanford UniversityIllustration

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    NIGMS-funded researchers led by Roger Kornberg solved the structure of RNA polymerase II. This is the enzyme in mammalian cells that catalyzes the transcription of DNA into messenger RNA, the molecule that in turn dictates the order of amino acids in proteins. For his work on the mechanisms of mammalian transcription, Kornberg received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006.

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    David Bushnell, Ken Westover and Roger Kornberg, Stanford University

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    David Bushnell, Ken Westover and Roger Kornberg, Stanford University

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