Rearrangement of the RNA polymerase subunit H and the lower jaw in archaeal elongation complexes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1950-1963

  Grünberg, Sebastian ^a   Reich, Christoph ^a   Zeller, Mirijam E ^a   Bartlett, Michael S ^b   Thomm, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN RNAP; PROTEIN RPB5; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE H; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; DNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARCHAEAL GENE; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MANDIBLE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77951215195     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp1190     Document Type: Article

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