Initial transcription by RNA polymerase proceeds through a DNA-scrunching mechanism

Science

Volumn 314, Issue 5802, 2006, Pages 1144-1147

  Kapanidis, Achillefs N ^a,b   Margeat, Emmanuel ^a,d   Ho, Sam On ^a   Kortkhonjia, Ekaterine ^a,c   Weiss, Shimon ^a   Ebright, Richard H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; RESONANCE; STRESS ANALYSIS; WINDING;

ACTIVE CENTER TRANSLOCATION; DNA COMPACTION STRESS; INITIATION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION;

RNA;

DNA; INITIATION FACTOR; RNA POLYMERASE;

DNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA DENATURATION; DNA SCRUNCHING; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA SYNTHESIS; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33751212468     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1131399     Document Type: Article

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