X-ray crystal structure of the polymerase domain of the bacteriophage N4 virion RNA polymerase

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 5046-5051

  Murakami, Katsuhiko S ^a   Davydova, Elena K ^b   Rothman Denes, Lucia B ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; COLIPHAGE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; VIRION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIOPHAGE N4; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; VIRION;

EID: 42449112438     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0712325105     Document Type: Article

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