Swing-gate model of nucleotide entry into the RNA polymerase active center

Molecular Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 623-634

  Epshtein, Vitaliy ^a,b   Mustaev, Arkady ^a   Markovtsov, Vadim ^a   Bereshchenko, Oxana ^a   Nikiforov, Vadim ^a,b   Goldfarb, Alex ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STEREOCHEMISTRY; TERMINAL SEQUENCE;

EID: 0036753435     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(02)00640-8     Document Type: Article

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