DNA-templated transcriptional start site selection
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.
GO:0032774
RNA biosynthetic process
is_a
GO:0006352
DNA-templated transcription initiation
part_of
DNA-dependent transcriptional start site selection
exact
transcriptional start site selection at bacterial-type RNA polymerase promoter
narrow
SPAC16E8.16