Sequence and DNA structural determinants of N4 virion RNA polymerase- promoter recognition

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 2782-2790

  Dai, Xing ^a   Rothman Denes, Lucia B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA structure; Promoter activation; Single stranded DNA binding protein; Supercoiling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRION; VIRUS CAPSID;

EID: 0032167802     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.17.2782     Document Type: Article

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