Conformational toggle triggers a modulator of RNA polymerase activity

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 424-426

  Deighan, Padraig ^a   Hochschild, Ann ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SHORT SURVEY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

EID: 33746314786     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2006.06.004     Document Type: Short Survey

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