Interaction of a nascent RNA structure with RNA polymerase is required for hairpin-dependent transcriptional pausing but not for transcript release

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 3110-3122

  Artsimovitch, Irina ^a   Landick, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Pausing; RNA hairpins; RNA polymerase; Termination

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CROSS LINKING; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0032190641     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.19.3110     Document Type: Article

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