Transcription reinitiation rate: A special role for the TATA box

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 3809-3816

  Yean, Dawn ^a   Gralla, Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE INDUCTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SYNTHESIS; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 0030917142     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.7.3809     Document Type: Article

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