Electron crystal structure of an RNA polymerase II transcription elongation complex

Cell

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 791-798

  Poglitsch, Claudia L ^a,b   Meredith, Gavin D ^a,c   Gnatt, Averell L ^a   Jensen, Grant J ^a   Chang, Wei Hau ^a   Fu, Jianhua ^a   Kornberg, Roger D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Caliper Life Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENE PRODUCT; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA CONFORMATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033578829     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81513-5     Document Type: Article

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