Cooperative relaxation of supercoils and periodic transcriptional initiation within polymerase batteries

BioEssays

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 325-332

  Guptasarma, Purnananda ^a,b  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); INITIATION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; DNA SUPERCOILING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION;

DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030131125     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.950180411     Document Type: Article

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