Functional regions of the N-terminal domain of the antiterminator RfaH

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 286-301

  Belogurov, Georgiy A ^a,b   Sevostyanova, Anastasia ^a   Svetlov, Vladimir ^a,c   Artsimovitch, Irina ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR; PROTEIN RFAH; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; RFAH PROTEIN, E COLI; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77951157212     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07056.x     Document Type: Article

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