Large-scale effects of transcriptional DNA supercoiling in vivo

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 292, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1149-1160

  Krasilnikov, Andrey S ^a   Podtelezhnikov, Alexei ^b   Vologodskii, Alexander ^b   Mirkin, Sergei M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroacetaldehyde; DNA cruciforms; DNA supercoiling; Repressor; Transcription

Indexed keywords

DNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA SUPERCOILING; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033536708     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3117     Document Type: Article

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