Pulling on the Nascent RNA during Transcription Does Not Alter Kinetics of Elongation or Ubiquitous Pausing

Molecular Cell

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 231-239

  Dalal, Ravindra V ^a   Larson, Matthew H ^a   Neuman, Keir C ^a   Gelles, Jeff ^b   Landick, Robert ^c   Block, Steven M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; COMPLEX FORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE TRANSLOCATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; UBIQUITINATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33745965527     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2006.06.023     Document Type: Article

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