Effect of varying the supercoiling of DNA on transcription and its regulation

Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 36, 2003, Pages 10718-10725

  Lim, Heon M ^a,b   Lewis, Dale E A ^a   Lee, Hee Jung ^a,b   Liu, Mofang ^a   Adhya, Sankar ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOMERS; PROTEINS; RNA; SUPERCOOLING;

TOPOISOMERS;

DNA;

DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SUPERCOILING; DNA TEMPLATE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LAC OPERON; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0041817952     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi030110t     Document Type: Article

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