A structural model of transcription elongation

Science

Volumn 289, Issue 5479, 2000, Pages 619-625

  Korzheva, Nataliya ^a   Mustaev, Arkady ^a   Kozlov, Maxim ^a   Malhotra, Arun ^b   Nikiforov, Vadim ^c   Goldfarb, Alex ^a   Darst, Seth A ^d  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BINDING SITES; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, MESSENGER; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; THERMUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0034725870     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5479.619     Document Type: Article

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