Collision events between RNA polymerases in convergent transcription studied by atomic force microscopy

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 5416-5425

  Crampton, Neal ^a   Bonass, William A ^a   Kirkham, Jennifer ^a   Rivetti, Claudio ^b   Thomson, Neil H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME KINETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

DNA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, GENETIC; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANAS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33750979858     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl668     Document Type: Article

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