A movie of the RNA polymerase nucleotide addition cycle

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 294-299

  Brueckner, Florian ^a   Ortiz, Julio ^b   Cramer, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA TRANSPORT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; NUCLEOTIDES; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

EID: 66549126163     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2009.04.005     Document Type: Review

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