RNA displacement and resolution of the transcription bubble during transcription by R7 RNA polymerase

Molecular Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 777-788

  Jiang, Manli ^a   Ma, Na ^a   Vassylyev, Dmitry G ^b   McAllister, William T ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RIKEN HARIMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA STRAND; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENES, REGULATOR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEOTIDES; RNA; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 4444379726     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2004.07.019     Document Type: Article

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