Editing TATA box (section)

=== Discovery ===
The TATA box was the first eukaryotic core promoter motif to be identified in 1978 by American biochemist [[David Hogness]]<ref name=":0" /> while he and his graduate student, Michael Goldberg were on sabbatical at the [[University of Basel]] in Switzerland.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Master Control Genes in Development and Evolution: The Homeobox Story|url=https://archive.org/details/mastercontrolgen0000gehr|url-access=registration|last=Gehring|first=Walter J. | name-list-style = vanc |publisher=Yale University Press|year=1998|isbn=978-0300074093|location=New Haven}}</ref> They first discovered the TATA sequence while analyzing 5' [[DNA]] [[Promoter (genetics)|promoter]] sequences in ''[[Drosophila]],'' [[mammal]]ian, and [[Virus|viral]] genes.<ref name=":14">{{cite journal | vauthors = Kutach AK, Kadonaga JT | title = The downstream promoter element DPE appears to be as widely used as the TATA box in Drosophila core promoters | journal = Molecular and Cellular Biology | volume = 20 | issue = 13 | pages = 4754–64 | date = July 2000 | pmid = 10848601 | pmc = 85905 | doi=10.1128/mcb.20.13.4754-4764.2000}}</ref><ref name=":11" /> The TATA box was found in [[protein]] coding [[gene]]s transcribed by [[RNA polymerase II]].<ref name=":11" />