Differential melting of the transcription start site associated with changes in RNA polymerase-promoter contacts in initiating transcription complexes

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 307, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 25-30

  Brodolin, Konstantin ^a   Buckle, Malcolm ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

Formaldehyde cross linking; Kinetics; Promoter melting; RNA polymerase

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CROSS LINKING; DISSOCIATION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA STRAND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOMERISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 0035896034     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2000.4483     Document Type: Article

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