Bacterial transcription elongation factors: New insights into molecular mechanism of action

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1315-1324

  Borukhov, Sergei ^a   Lee, Jookyung ^a   Laptenko, Oleg ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR GREA; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR MFD; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR NUSA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 14844329013     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04481.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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