Mutant bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerases with altered termination properties

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 269, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 28-40

  Lyakhov, Dmitry L ^a,b   He, Biao ^a,d   Zhang, Xing ^c   Studier, F W ^c   Dunn, John J ^c   McAllister, William T ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concatamer junction; Packaging; Phage RNA polymerase; RNA binding; T7 lysozyme

Indexed keywords

LYSOZYME; MUTANT PROTEIN; POLYURIDYLIC ACID; RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SUPERCOILING; DNA TEMPLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

DNA VIRUSES; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031591385     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1015     Document Type: Article

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