Protection of antiterminator RNA by the transcript elongation complex

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1197-1208

  Sloan, Sieghild ^a   Rutkai, Edit ^a,b   King, Rodney A ^a,c   Velikodvorskaya, Tatyana ^a   Weisberg, Robert A ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN PUTL; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGE HK022; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA STABILITY; RNA, VIRAL; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33846643534     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05579.x     Document Type: Article

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