Crystal structure of thermus aquaticus core RNA polymerase at 3.3 å resolution

Cell

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 811-824

  Zhang, Gongyi ^a,c   Campbell, Elizabeth A ^a   Minakhin, Leonid ^b   Richter, Catherine ^a   Severinov, Konstantin ^b   Darst, Seth A ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; ION CHANNEL; MAGNESIUM ION; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; THERMUS AQUATICUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; THERMUS AQUATICUS;

EID: 0033578701     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81515-9     Document Type: Article

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