In Vivo Dynamics of Intracistronic Transcriptional Polarity

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 385, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 733-747

  de Smit, Maarten H ^a   Verlaan, Paul W G ^a   van Duin, Jan ^a   Pleij, Cornelis W A ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

kinetics; Rho transcription factor; transcription termination; transcriptional polarity; translation

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; RHO FACTOR; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME KINETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPORTER GENE; RIBOSOME; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 58149125125     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.11.020     Document Type: Article

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