An RNA enhancer in a phage transcriptional antitermination complex functions as a structural switch

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 2214-2226

  Su, Leila ^a   Radek, James T ^a   Labeots, Laura A ^a   Hallenga, Klaas ^a   Hermanto, Patrick ^a   Chen, Huifen ^a   Nakagawa, Satoe ^a   Zhao, Ming ^a   Kates, Steve ^b   Weiss, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b PERKINELMER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Nut site; RNA polymerase; RNA structure; Transcriptional elongation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA;

EID: 0030931149     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.17.2214     Document Type: Article

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