Role of the RNA polymerase trigger loop in catalysis and pausing

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 99-105

  Zhang, Jinwei ^a,c   Palangat, Murali ^b   Landick, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

CATALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77449093660     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1732     Document Type: Article

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