Specific fluorescent labeling of two functional domains in RNA polymerase subunit

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 183-192

  Ozoline, Olga N ^a,b   Murakami, Katsuhiko ^a   Negishi, Tomofumi ^a   Fujita, Nobuyuki ^a   Ishihama, Akira ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF CELL BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Alanine scanning; Chemical modification; Cysteine free protein; Enzyme reconstitution; Fluorescent probe; Protein DNA interaction; Site directed mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME RECONSTITUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

CYSTEINE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCEINS; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; FLUORESCENT DYES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; ORGANOMERCURY COMPOUNDS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPSIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032006165     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(19980201)30:2<183::AID-PROT8>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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