Jasper94574

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 02:05, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Peer review from classmate Lovinne

Overall

• I think the article is well-written and well-organized. Although I'm not an expert on RNA pol II, I it seems that you have a lot of good information.
• There are some places where I think scientific terms could use more explanation. I'll note these in my section-by-section suggestions.

Discovery of RNApol II

• Although scientifically-literate people know what the nucleolus and nucleoplasm are, I don't know if laymen would.
• I changed a sentence in this section ("In 1969, science experimentalists...") to make it more clear.
• It might be helpful to briefly explain ion exchange chromatography.

Subunits

• It might help to explain the implications to the core enzyme's inability to recognize specific promoters, e.g. whether or not transcription can occur.
• It would be helpful to include a diagram of RNApol II that shows where the subunits are. I know there are different RNApol II's, so maybe use human or yeast?

Assembly

• A diagram of the assembly process would be very helpful.

Kinetics

• The first paragraph here seems tangential. The article as about RNApol II, not enzymes in general.
• Perhaps instead you could say what the average Km and Kcat values are for RNApol II enzymes.
• What are alpha-amanitin and amatoxins?

Holoenzyme

• I think you should cite the last sentence of paragraph one, as well as paragraph 2.

Control by chromatin structure

• The structure of this section is a little confusing. I think it would benefit from a topic sentence that says a general statement about the relationship between chromatin structure and RNApol II.
• There are no citations in this section.

Protein complexes involved

• At the top, is that a list? If so, I would use bullet points.
• Images of the CTD domain would fit well here.

Please let me know if any of my critiques need more explanation. Just post on my user talk page.Lovinne (talk) 19:34, 6 March 2017 (UTC)