DNA-binding determinants of the α subunit of RNA polymerase: Novel DNA-binding domain architecture

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 16-26

  Gaal, Tamas ^a   Ross, Wilma ^a   Blatter, Erich E ^b   Tang, Hong ^b   Jia, Xin ^c   Krishnan, V V ^c   Assa Munt, Nuria ^c   Ebright, Richard H ^b   Gourse, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Promoter; RNA polymerase; Transcriptional activation; UP element; subunit

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBON 13; NITROGEN 15; PLASMID DNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DNA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030045015     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.1.16     Document Type: Article

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