Upstream A-tracts increase bacterial promoter activity through interactions with the RNA polymerase α subunit

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 95, Issue 25, 1998, Pages 14652-14657

  Aiyar, Sarah E ^a   Gourse, Richard L ^a   Ross, Wilma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

A tract DNA; DNA curvature; UP element

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032409982     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.25.14652     Document Type: Article

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