Subunit assembly in vivo of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase: Role of the amino-terminal assembly domain of alpha subunit

Genes to Cells

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 517-528

  Kimura, Makoto ^a,b   Ishihama, Akira ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; DNAK PROTEIN, E COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 70; SIGMA FACTOR;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SIGMA FACTOR;

EID: 0030155940     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1996.d01-258.x     Document Type: Article

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