Mechanism of intrinsic transcription termination and antitermination

Science

Volumn 284, Issue 5414, 1999, Pages 611-615

  Yarnell, W S ^a   Roberts, J W ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA HYBRID; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033597435     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5414.611     Document Type: Article

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52. Supported by NIH grant GM 21941. We thank R. Weisberg and L. Rothman-Denes for reading the manuscript, members of the laboratory, especially M. Marr, for essential advice and discussion, and D. Jun-Jin for a gift of mutationally altered RNA polymerase.