The bacterial transcription repair coupling factor

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 96-102

  Deaconescu, Alexandra M ^a   Savery, Nigel ^b   Darst, Seth A ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC EXCINUCLEASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; ENZYME; MOLECULAR MOTOR; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION REPAIR COUPLING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHITECTURE; BACTERIUM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA TEMPLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXCISION REPAIR; EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; X RAY;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33846930416     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2007.01.005     Document Type: Review

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