How sigma docks to RNA polymerase and what sigma does

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 126-131

  Burgess, Richard R ^a   Anthony, Larry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOENZYME; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE;

BINDING SITE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA BINDING; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA STRAND; ENZYME METABOLISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA CONFORMATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0035075383     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(00)00177-6     Document Type: Review

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