Stepwise mechanism for transcription fidelity

BMC Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Yuzenkova, Yulia ^a   Bochkareva, Aleksandra ^a   Tadigotla, Vasisht R ^b   Roghanian, Mohammad ^a   Zorov, Savva ^c,d   Severinov, Konstantin ^d,e,f   Zenkin, Nikolay ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

DNA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEOTIDES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77951973031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-54     Document Type: Article

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