Mechanism of NusG-stimulated pausing, hairpin-dependent pause site selection and intrinsic termination at overlapping pause and termination sites in the Bacillus subtilis trp leader

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 690-705

  Yakhnin, Alexander V ^a   Babitzke, Paul ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; PROTEIN NUSA; PROTEIN NUSG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ELONGATION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; INVERTED REPEAT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; REGULATOR GENE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERON; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; RNA, BACTERIAL; TERMINATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77951565527     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07126.x     Document Type: Article

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