DNA-dependent transcriptional start site selection

id: GO:0001173
name: DNA-dependent transcriptional start site selection
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: Any process involved in the selection of the specific location within the template strand of a DNA-dependent RNA polymerase promoter for hybridization of the cognate ribonucleotides and formation of first phosphodiester bond within the nascent transcript.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0001174transcriptional start site selection at RNA polymerase II promoter
GO:0001175transcriptional start site selection at RNA polymerase III promoter
GO:0001176transcriptional start site selection at bacterial-type RNA polymerase promoter

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0032774RNA biosynthetic process