text: Polymerase III terminates transcription at small polyUs stretch (5-6). In eukaryotes, a hairpin loop is not required, but may enhance termination efficiency in humans. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, it was found that termination of transcription occurred in the sequence T7GT6 and was progressive. The presence of transcripts with five, six, and seven U residues and the slow readthrough of the T7 stretch suggest that the incorporation of a single G into the RNA chain served to reset elongation rates either entirely or substantially.