An alternate mechanism of abortive release marked by the formation of very long abortive transcripts

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 44, 2007, Pages 12687-12699

  Chander, Monica ^a   Austin, Karyn M ^a   Aye Han, Nwe Nwe ^a   Sircar, Piya ^a   Hsu, Lilian M ^a  

^a MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTIVE TRANSCRIPTS; INITIAL TRANSCRIBED SEQUENCE (ITS); RNA POLYMERASE;

BIOCHEMISTRY; NUCLEOTIDES; RNA;

ENZYME KINETICS;

NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN GREB; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

EID: 35848961915     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi701236f     Document Type: Article

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