% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @ARTICLE{Chung:274375, author = {C. Chung and B. M. Verheijen and Z. Navapanich and E. G. McGann and S. Shemtov and G.-J. Lai and P. Arora and A. Towheed and S. Haroon and A. Holczbauer and S. Chang and Z. Manojlovic and S. Simpson and K. W. Thomas and C. Kaplan and P. van Hasselt and H. T. M. Timmers$^*$ and D. Erie and L. Chen and J.-F. Gout and M. Vermulst}, title = {{E}volutionary conservation of the fidelity of transcription.}, journal = {Nature Communications}, volume = {14}, number = {1}, issn = {2041-1723}, address = {[London]}, publisher = {Nature Publishing Group UK}, reportid = {DKFZ-2023-00575}, pages = {1547}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Accurate transcription is required for the faithful expression of genetic information. However, relatively little is known about the molecular mechanisms that control the fidelity of transcription, or the conservation of these mechanisms across the tree of life. To address these issues, we measured the error rate of transcription in five organisms of increasing complexity and found that the error rate of RNA polymerase II ranges from 2.9 × 10-6 ± 1.9 × 10-7/bp in yeast to 4.0 × 10-6 ± 5.2 × 10-7/bp in worms, 5.69 × 10-6 ± 8.2 × 10-7/bp in flies, 4.9 × 10-6 ± 3.6 × 10-7/bp in mouse cells and 4.7 × 10-6 ± 9.9 × 10-8/bp in human cells. These error rates were modified by various factors including aging, mutagen treatment and gene modifications. For example, the deletion or modification of several related genes increased the error rate substantially in both yeast and human cells. This research highlights the evolutionary conservation of factors that control the fidelity of transcription. Additionally, these experiments provide a reasonable estimate of the error rate of transcription in human cells and identify disease alleles in a subunit of RNA polymerase II that display error-prone transcription. Finally, we provide evidence suggesting that the error rate and spectrum of transcription co-evolved with our genetic code.}, cin = {FR01}, ddc = {500}, cid = {I:(DE-He78)FR01-20160331}, pnm = {899 - ohne Topic (POF4-899)}, pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-899}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16}, pubmed = {pmid:36941254}, doi = {10.1038/s41467-023-36525-w}, url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/274375}, }