Helix unwinding and base flipping enable human MTERF1 to terminate mitochondrial transcription

Cell

Volumn 141, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 982-993

  Yakubovskaya, Elena ^a   Mejia, Edison ^a   Byrnes, James ^a   Hambardjieva, Elena ^a   Garcia Diaz, Miguel ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

RNA

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING FACTOR 1;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE MUTATION; KEARNS SAYRE SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRION; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

EID: 77953699733     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2010.05.018     Document Type: Article

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