Requirement for two copies of RNA polymerase α subunit C-terminal domain for synergistic transcription activation at complex bacterial promoters

Genes and Development

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 2557-2565

  Lloyd, Georgina S ^a   Niu, Wei ^b,c   Tebbutt, John ^a   Ebright, Richard H ^b   Busby, Stephen J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cAMP receptor protein; CRP dependent promoters; RNA polymerase subunit; Transcription activation

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN; DNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036791765     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.237502     Document Type: Article

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