Single-Molecule Approaches Reveal the Idiosyncrasies of RNA Polymerases

Structure

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 953-966

  Zlatanova, Jordanka ^a   McAllister, William T ^b   Borukhov, Sergei ^b   Leuba, Sanford H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TEMPLATE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; MEASUREMENT; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SYNTHESIS; TECHNIQUE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

DNA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MAGNETICS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33744784269     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2006.03.016     Document Type: Review

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