Structure and mechanism in transcriptional antitermination by the bacteriophage λ N protein

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 63, Issue , 1998, Pages 327-336

  Greenblatt, J ^a,b   Mah, T F ^a,b   Legault, P ^a,b   Mogridge, J ^a,b   Li, J ^a   Kay, L E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA N PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; SERINE ARGININE RICH PROTEIN; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; BOVINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY LIKE VIRUS; DNA BINDING; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TEMPLATE; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION;

EID: 0032459209     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1998.63.327     Document Type: Conference Paper

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