Repressor CopG prevents access of RNA polymerase to promoter and actively dissociates open complexes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 4799-4811

  Hernández Arriaga, Ana M ^a   Rubio Lepe, Tania S ^a   Espinosa, Manuel ^a   del Solar, Gloria ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; GENE PRODUCT; HEPARIN; PROTEIN REPB; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSOR PROTEIN COPG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HALF LIFE TIME; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REPRESSOR GENE; RNA BINDING;

BINDING SITES; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; DNA; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; KINETICS; MODELS, GENETIC; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 69049111851     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp503     Document Type: Article

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