Topoisomerases and yeast rRNA transcription: Negative supercoiling stimulates initiation and topoisomerase activity is required for elongation

Genes and Development

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 1992, Pages 1332-1341

  Schultz, Michael C ^a   Brill, Steven J ^b,d   Ju, Qida ^c   Sternglanz, Rolf ^b   Reeder, Ronald H ^a  

^a FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

RNA polymerase I; Supercoiling; Topoisomerases; Transcription; Yeast

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA POLYMERASE I; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0026725797     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.6.7.1332     Document Type: Article

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