Translational repression by a transcriptional elongation factor

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 2204-2213

  Wilson, Helen R ^a   Kameyama, Luis ^a,c   Zhou, Jian Guang ^a   Guarneros, Gabriel ^b   Court, Donald L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Ctro Invest de Estud Avanzados I ^*  (Mexico)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Antitermination; Bacteriophage ; Long distance regulation; N; RNA binding proteins

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA;

EID: 0030930852     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.17.2204     Document Type: Article

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