RNA polymerase structure-function: Insights into points of transcriptional regulation

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 118-125

  Severinov, Konstantin ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; THERMUS AQUATICUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; THERMUS AQUATICUS;

EID: 0034026376     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(00)00062-X     Document Type: Review

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