Structural studies of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 63, Issue , 1998, Pages 269-276

  Darst, S A ^a   Polyakov, A ^a   Richter, C ^a   Zhang, G ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE BETA; INITIATION FACTOR;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICROBIAL GENOME; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032459428     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1998.63.269     Document Type: Conference Paper

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