Allosteric control of escherichia coli rRNA promoter complexes by DksA

Genes and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 236-248

  Rutherford, Steven T ^a   Villers, Courtney L ^a   Lee, Jeong Hyun ^a   Ross, Wilma ^a   Gourse, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

DksA; PpGpp; Promoter; Ribosome synthesis; RNA polymerase; Transcription initiation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; DKSA PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPRESSOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 58849139777     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1745409     Document Type: Article

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