Cell-free transcription at 95°: Thermostability of transcriptional components and DNA topology requirements of pyrococcus transcription

Genetics

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1325-1333

  Hethke, Carina ^a   Bergerat, Agnes ^b   Hausner, Winfried ^a   Forterre, Patrick ^b   Thomm, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; DNA SUPERCOILING; DNA TEMPLATE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; RNA SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOSTABILITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; HALF-LIFE; HEAT; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PYROCOCCUS; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0345151826     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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