FIS activates sequential steps during transcription initiation at a stable RNA promoter

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 3655-3665

  Muskhelishvili, G ^a   Buckle, M ^b   Heumann, H ^c   Kahmann, R ^a   Travers, A A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DNA microloops; FIS; RNA polymerase; Surface plasmon resonance; Transcription activation

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA DENATURATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION PROTEIN; INTEGRATION HOST FACTORS; KINETICS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, TRANSFER, TYR; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0030927885     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.12.3655     Document Type: Article

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