Cold sensitivity of thermophilic and mesophilic RNA polymerases

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 7818-7820

  Kulbachinskiy, A ^a,b   Bass, I ^a   Bogdanova, E ^a   Goldfarb, A ^b   Nikiforov, V ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; COLD SENSITIVITY; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SPECIES COMPARISON; THERMOSTABILITY; THERMUS AQUATICUS;

COLD; DEINOCOCCUS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ENZYME STABILITY; HEAT; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, BACTERIAL; THERMUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

DEINOCOCCUS; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; THERMUS; THERMUS AQUATICUS;

EID: 7744237114     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.22.7818-7820.2004     Document Type: Article

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