Backtracking by single RNA polymerase molecules observed at near-base-pair resolution

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6967, 2003, Pages 684-687

  Shaevitz, Joshua W ^a   Abbondanzieri, Elio A ^a   Landick, Robert ^b   Block, Steven M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSAYS; DNA; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION;

RNA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GREA PROTEIN; GREB PROTEIN; INOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; RIBONUCLEOTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ENZYME;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS; RNA, BACTERIAL; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0346258014     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02191     Document Type: Article

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