Sigma and RNA polymerase: An on-again, off-again relationship?

Molecular Cell

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 335-345

  Mooney, Rachel Anne ^a   Darst, Seth A ^b   Landick, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOENZYME; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR;

ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME RELEASE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA SYNTHESIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 27644560257     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2005.10.015     Document Type: Review

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