Pausing and termination by bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 280, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 201-213

  Lyakhov, Dmitry L ^a,b   He, Biao ^a   Zhang, Xing ^c   Studier, F William ^c   Dunn, John J ^c   McAllister, William T ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformation change; T7 lysozyme; Termination kinetics; Transcript termination; Transcriptional pausing

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

EID: 0032504089     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1854     Document Type: Article

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