DNA-dependent transcriptional open complex formation

id: GO:0001112
name: DNA-dependent transcriptional open complex formation
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: Any process involved in the melting of the DNA hybrid of the core promoter region within the transcriptional closed complex of an RNA polymerase preinitiation complex (PIC) to produce an open complex where the DNA duplex around the transcription initiation site is unwound to form the transcription bubble.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0001113transcriptional open complex formation at RNA polymerase II promoter
GO:0001127transcriptional open complex formation at bacterial-type RNA polymerase promoter

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0001120protein-DNA complex remodeling