A common topology for bacterial and eukaryotic transcription initiation?

EMBO Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 147-151

  Travers, Andrew ^a   Muskhelishvili, Georgi ^b  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARAC PROTEIN; BACTERIAL DNA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B PROTEIN; INTEGRATION HOST FACTOR; LEUCINE RESPONSIVE REGULATORY PROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; POLYMER; RNA POLYMERASE; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRIOXYSALEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SUPERCOILING; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC REGULATION; GEOMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIA; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33947265929     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400898     Document Type: Article

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