Insect-resistant transgenic crops were first commercialized in the mid-1990s with the introduction of GM corn (maize), potato and cotton plants expressing genes encoding the entomocidal δ-endotoxin from Bacillus thuringiensis.

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Four Steps for bacterial transcription

1. Promoter search->closed promoter complex -> open promoter complex

2. Abortive transcription->Promoter Escape->Initiation from +1 TSS 

3. Elongation

4. Termination

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Promoter search->closed promoter complex -> open promoter complex

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Sigma factor ensures that bacterial RNA polymerase initiates transcription from specific sites, also reduces binding to nonspecific sequences.

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

The transition from the closed to the open complex involves “melting” between positions –11 and +2, with respect to the transcription start site.

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Transition from CPC to OPC often called isomerization, does not require energy derived from ATP hydrolysis and is instead the result of a spontaneous conformational change in the DNA– enzyme complex to a more energetically favorable form.