An Allosteric Path to Transcription Termination

Molecular Cell

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 991-1001

  Epshtein, Vitaly ^a   Cardinale, Christopher J ^a   Ruckenstein, Andrei E ^b,c   Borukhov, Sergei ^d   Nudler, Evgeny ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA

Indexed keywords

RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; YEAST;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 37349115934     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2007.10.011     Document Type: Article

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