Mechanism of mammalian transcriptional repression by noncoding RNA
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Ancestral origin and functional expression of a hyaluronic acid pathway complement in mussels
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Structural and functional basis of mammalian microRNA biogenesis by Dicer
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PH regulates neuronal gene expression through the Pol II CTD reader domain SPOC
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Architecture of the RNA polymerase II-PaC-TFIIS transcription elongation complex
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Structure of a transcribing RNA polymerase II-DSIF complex reveals a multidentate DNA-RNA clamp
C. Bernecky, J. Plitzko, P. Cramer, Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 24 (2017) 809–815.

Structural basis of RNA polymerase I transcription initiation
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Structure of transcribing mammalian RNA polymerase II
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Structural basis of transcription initiation by RNA polymerase II
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Struggling to let go: A non-coding RNA directs its own extension and destruction
C. Bernecky, P. Cramer, EMBO Journal 32 (2013) 771–772.

Activator-mediator binding stabilizes RNA polymerase II orientation within the human mediator-RNA polymerase II-TFIIF assembly
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Molecular architecture of the human Mediator-RNA polymerase II-TFIIF assembly
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The human CDK8 subcomplex is a molecular switch that controls Mediator coactivator function
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