Inhibitory effect of a short Z-DNA forming sequence on transcription elongation by T7 RNA polymerase

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3163-3170

  Ditlevson, Jennifer V ^a   Tornaletti, Silvia ^a,c   Belotserkovskii, Boris P ^a   Teijeiro, Virginia ^a   Wang, Guliang ^b   Vasquez, Karen M ^b   Hanawalt, Philip C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA Z; PURINE; PYRIMIDINE; RIBOZYME; RNA POLYMERASE; BACTERIOPHAGE T7 RNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; PURINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SUPERCOILING; DNA TEMPLATE; GENETIC STABILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

MAMMALIA;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; DNA, Z-FORM; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MODELS, GENETIC; PURINES; PYRIMIDINES; RNA, CATALYTIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 45549106233     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn136     Document Type: Article

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