Crucial role of the RNA:DNA hybrid in the processivity of transcription

Molecular Cell

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-64

  Sidorenkov, Igor ^a   Komissarova, Natalia ^a   Kashlev, Mikhail ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; DNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDE; RNA; RNA PRIMERS; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CELL FREE SYSTEM; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MACROMOLECULE; METABOLISM; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNTHESIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; CATALYSIS; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; DNA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE I; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032113494     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80113-6     Document Type: Article

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