The smallest mitochondrial genomes in Plasmodium, are only about 6 kb, encoding three proteins and the mitochondrial rRNAs.

Arabidopsis thaliana, has 366 kb of mtDNA and cucurbit plants have about 2 Mb of mtDNA.

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The b-subunit is obviously the determinant of rifampicin sensitivity or resistance.

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The overall reaction rate for the bacterial RNA polymerase can be as fast as 40–50 nucleotides/second at 37°C for most transcripts; this is about the same as the rate of translation (15 amino acids/sec), but much slower than the rate of DNA replication (800 bp/sec).

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

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

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