Bacteriophage-Induced Modifications of Host RNA Polymerase

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue , 2003, Pages 301-322

  Nechaev, Sergei ^a   Severinov, Konstantin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Host transcription shut off; Transcription regulation; Viral development

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; GENE PRODUCT; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; HK022 NUN PROTEIN; PROTEIN GP0 7; PROTEIN GP2; PROTEIN KINASE; Q PROTEIN; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; THERMUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0242693109     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.57.030502.090942     Document Type: Review

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