Transcription through a simple DNA repeat blocks replication elongation

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 5095-5102

  Krasilnikova, Maria M ^a,b   M samadashwily, George ^a   Krasilnikov, Andrey S ^a,b   Mirkin, Sergei M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Elongation; Replication; Simple sequence repeats; Termination; Transcription

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA TEMPLATE; ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0032167384     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.17.5095     Document Type: Article

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