The Organisation of Transcription and Translation
Peter Lewis and Xiao Yang
from: Bacillus: Cellular and Molecular Biology (Second edition) (Edited by: Peter Graumann). Caister Academic Press, U.K. (2012)
Abstract
The traditional view of transcription and translation within the cell was that of a very closely coupled process where translating ribosomes assembled on the nascent transcript as it was produced by transcribing RNA polymerase. Whilst this close physical coupling is undoubtedly important, it seems clear now that a number of other events are significant with respect to the physical organization of these two processes within the cell. Transcription is crudely segregated into two regions within the nucleoid where either stable (r- and t-) RNA, or mRNA transcription predominate. Translation by polysomes is probably enriched at cell poles, whereas the assembly of initiation complexes, and maybe some transcriptionally linked ribosomes may occur throughout the nucleoid read more ...
