Allosteric control of catalysis by the F loop of RNA polymerase

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 45, 2009, Pages 18942-18947

  Miropolskaya, Nataliya ^a   Artsimovitch, Irina ^b   Klimašauskas, Saulius ^c   Nikiforov, Vadim ^a,d   Kulbachinskiy, Andrey ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^d RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Nucleotide addition; RNA cleavage; Streptolydigin; Temperature adaptation; Transcription

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE; STREPTOLYDIGIN;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CATALYSIS; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAQ GENE; THERMUS AQUATICUS;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATALYSIS; DEINOCOCCUS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; DRUG RESISTANCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; THERMUS AQUATICUS;

EID: 73149106601     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905402106     Document Type: Article

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