Effects of RNA polymerase modifications on transcription-induced negative supercoiling and associated R-loop formation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1769-1779

  Broccoli, Sonia ^a   Rallu, Fabien ^a   Sanscartler, Patrick ^a   Cerritelli, Susana M ^b   Crouch, Robert J ^b   Drolet, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ENZYME; DNA FRAGMENT; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); ENZYME INHIBITOR; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSLATION TERMINATION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SUPERCOILING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA GYRASE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; LIGASES; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PYROPHOSPHATASES; RIBONUCLEASE H, CALF THYMUS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RRNA OPERON; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 3042550193     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04092.x     Document Type: Article

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