Antitermination in bacteriophage λ the structure of the N36 peptide- boxB RNA complex

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2397-2408

  Schärpf, Manuela ^c   Sticht, Heinrich ^c   Schweimer, Kristian ^c   Boehm, Markus ^b   Hoffmann, Silke ^c   Rösch, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Antitermination; Bacteriophage lambda; GNRA tetraloop; NMR; Peptide RNA complex

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; ELECTRICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA, VIRAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRAL REGULATORY PROTEINS;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA;

EID: 0000641399     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01251.x     Document Type: Article

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