The structural basis for terminator recognition by the Rho transcription termination factor

Molecular Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 487-493

  Bogden, Cynthia E ^a   Fass, Deborah ^a,d   Bergman, Nick ^a   Nichols, Matthew D ^b   Berger, James M ^c  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION FACTOR RHO;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; DNA TEMPLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATOR GENE; RNA BINDING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033120903     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80476-1     Document Type: Article

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