Transcription termination in the plasmid/virus hybrid pSSVx from Sulfolobus islandicus

Extremophiles

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 453-463

  Contursi, Patrizia ^a,b   Cannio, Raffaele ^c   She, Qunxin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN BIOCHEMISTRY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Counter transcripts; Fuselloviridae; Stem and loop structure; Transcription termination

Indexed keywords

PANCREATIC RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE T1; THYMINE; VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; FUSELLOVIRIDAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBONUCLEASE T1; RIBONUCLEASE, PANCREATIC; RNA, VIRAL; THYMINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARCHAEA; FUSELLOVIRIDAE; FUSELLOVIRUS; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS ISLANDICUS;

EID: 77956407276     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-010-0325-4     Document Type: Article

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