RNA polymerase mutations that impair conversion to a termination-resistant complex by Q antiterminator proteins

Genes and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1281-1292

  Santangelo, Thomas J ^a   Mooney, Rachel Anne ^b   Landick, Robert ^b   Roberts, Jeffrey W ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Antitermination; Bacteriophage ; Q protein; RNA polymerase; Termination; Transcription

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CATALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POINT MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA;

EID: 0038286179     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1082103     Document Type: Article

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