Static and kinetic site-specific protein-DNA photocrosslinking: Analysis of bacterial transcription initiation complexes

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 543, Issue , 2009, Pages 403-437

  Naryshkin, Nikolai ^a   Druzhinin, Sergei ^a   Revyakin, Andrei ^a   Kim, Younggyu ^a   Mekler, Vladimir ^a   Ebright, Richard H ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinetics; Open complex; Phenyl azide photoactivatible crosslinking agent; Phosphate; Phosphorothioate; Promoter; Protein DNA interaction; Pulsed laser UV irradiations; Quench flow rapid mixing; RNA polymerase; Structure; Transcription initiation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

CROSS LINKING REAGENT; DNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; KINETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ANIMALS; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DNA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; LIGHT; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 67649092168     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-015-1_25     Document Type: Article

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