Structural basis for substrate selection by T7 RNA polymerase

Cell

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 381-391

  Temiakov, Dmitry ^a,b   Patlan, Vsevolod ^b   Anikin, Michael ^a,b   McAllister, William T ^a   Yokoyama, Shigeyuki ^b,c,d   Vassylyev, Dmitry G ^b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RIKEN HARIMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBOSE; RIBOSE; RNA POLYMERASE; TYROSINE;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATION; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 1642276330     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(04)00059-5     Document Type: Article

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