Determinants of transcription initiation by archaeal RNA polymerase

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 677-684

  Bartlett, Michael S ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ENZYME DEGRADATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HALOBACTERIUM; HALOFERAX MEDITERRANEI; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SULFOLOBUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIB; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; HALOBACTERIUM; HALOFERAX MEDITERRANEI; SULFOLOBUS;

EID: 27844564819     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2005.10.016     Document Type: Review

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