Isolation, purification, and in vitro characterization of recessive- lethal-mutant RNA polymerases from Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 5263-5271

  Tavormina, Patricia L ^a,d   Landick, Robert ^a,b   Gross, Carol A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; RNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0029810399     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.17.5263-5271.1996     Document Type: Article

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