Transcription through the roadblocks: The role of RNA polymerase cooperation

EMBO Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 4719-4727

  Epshtein, Vitaly ^c   Toulmé, Francine ^a   Rachid Rahmouni, A ^a   Borukhov, Sergei ^b   Nudler, Evgeny ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CENTRE DE BIOPHYSIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^c SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Protein roadblocks; RNA polymerase; Transcription elongation

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; ENZYME MECHANISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; HOMEOSTASIS; LAC OPERON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0141625269     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg452     Document Type: Article

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