Promoter melting triggered by bacterial RNA polymerase occurs in three steps

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 28, 2010, Pages 12523-12528

  Chen, Jie ^a   Darst, Seth A ^b   Thirumalai, D ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA scrunching; Molecular simulations; Self organized polymer model; Sequential DNA unzipping; Transcription initiation

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA STRAND; DNA STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; THERMUS AQUATICUS;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; FREEZING; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); THERMUS;

EID: 77955436585     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1003533107     Document Type: Article

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