Asynchronous basepair openings in transcription initiation: CRP enhances the rate-limiting step

EMBO Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 869-875

  Roy, Siddhartha ^a,b   Lim, Heon Man ^a,c   Liu, Mofang ^a   Adhya, Sankar ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

^c Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

2,aminopurine; Activation; Fluorescence; Intermediate; Kinetics; Transcription

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOPURINE; CYCLIC AMP; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN CRP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DNA STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; ISOMERIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

2-AMINOPURINE; BASE PAIRING; CYCLIC AMP; DNA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ISOMERISM; KINETICS; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 1842562314     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600098     Document Type: Article

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