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"Besides confirming that the natural 6S RNA acts as a decoy by mimicry of the DNA promoter open complex, the authors show that inhibitory RNA can act as a transcriptional template, and that the inhibitory complex is destabilized by such transcription."

Jim Maher
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, United States

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Jonathan Flint
University of Oxford, United Kingdom

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