DNA bending and wrapping around RNA polymerase: A 'revolutionary' model describing transcriptional mechanisms

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 457-478

  Coulombe, Benoit ^a   Burton, Zachary F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CURVED DNA; DNA HOMOLOG; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CONFORMATION; DNA HELIX; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOMERISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0033032415     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.63.2.457-478.1999     Document Type: Review

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