Control of transcription termination in prokaryotes

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue , 1996, Pages 35-57

  Henkin, Tina M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

antitermination; attenuation; bacterial gene expression; gene regulation; transcription termination

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSFER RNA;

BACTERIAL GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS);

EID: 0030443623     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.30.1.35     Document Type: Review

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