Active Escherichia coli transcription elongation complexes are functionally homogeneous

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 322, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 505-519

  Pasman, Zvi ^a   Von Hippel, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression regulation; Intrinsic termination; Rho dependent termination; RNA polymerase; Transcript elongation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA TEMPLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ILEX COOKII;

EID: 0036385743     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)00814-8     Document Type: Article

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