A Central Role of the RNA Polymerase Trigger Loop in Active-Site Rearrangement during Transcriptional Pausing

Molecular Cell

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 406-419

  Toulokhonov, Innokenti ^a   Zhang, Jinwei ^b   Palangat, Murali ^a   Landick, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FOLDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTIONAL PAUSING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 34547204502     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2007.06.008     Document Type: Article

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