An allosteric mechanism of Rho-dependent transcription termination

Nature

Volumn 463, Issue 7278, 2010, Pages 245-249

  Epshtein, Vitaly ^a   Dutta, Dipak ^a   Wade, Joseph ^b   Nudler, Evgeny ^a  

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

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR; RHO FACTOR; RNA POLYMERASE;

BACTERIUM; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; RNA;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; BINDING SITES; BIOCATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PROTEIN BINDING; RHO FACTOR; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 74549191169     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08669     Document Type: Article

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