Macromolecular micromovements: how RNA polymerase translocates

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 701-707

  Svetlov, Vladimir ^a   Nudler, Evgeny ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; DISSOCIATION; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MACROMOLECULE; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSPORT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; THERMUS AQUATICUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOVEMENT; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 70549108206     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2009.10.002     Document Type: Review

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