Single-molecule analysis of RNA polymerase transcription

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 35, Issue , 2006, Pages 343-360

  Bai, Lu ^a   Santangelo, Thomas J ^b   Wang, Michelle D ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elongation; Initiation; Kinetics; Mechanism; Pausing

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENZYME BINDING; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

DNA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RNA; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33745041963     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.35.010406.150153     Document Type: Review

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