Intragenic suppression of trans-dominant lethal substitutions in the conserved GEME motif of the β subunit of RNA polymerase: Evidence for functional cooperativity within the C-terminus

Genes to Cells

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 501-515

  Malik, Talat ^a,b   Ahmad, Khalid ^a   Buyukuslu, Nihal ^a   Cromie, Karen ^a,c   Glass, Robert E ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Celltech   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, LETHAL; GENES, SUPPRESSOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032758967     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1999.00276.x     Document Type: Article

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