Dual role of boxB RNA motif in the mechanisms of termination/ antitermination at the lambda tR1 terminator revealed in vivo

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 339, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1077-1087

  Vieu, Erwann ^a   Rahmouni, A Rachid ^a  

^a CENTRE DE BIOPHYSIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

antitermination; phage lambda; Rho dependent termination; RNAP, RNA polymerase; tR1 terminator; transcription regulation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL RNA; COAT PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BINDING SITE; CLAMP; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONFORMATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; RUTA;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BASE SEQUENCE; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RHO FACTOR; RNA, VIRAL; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL REGULATORY PROTEINS;

EID: 3042526340     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.04.022     Document Type: Article

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