Multiple roles of the RNA polymerase β′ SW2 region in transcription initiation, promoter escape, and RNA elongation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 5784-5796

  Pupov, Danil ^a,b   Miropolskaya, Nataliya ^a   Sevostyanova, Anastasiya ^c   Bass, Irina ^a   Artsimovitch, Irina ^c   Kulbachinskiy, Andrey ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT; BETA' SUBUNIT OF RNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DENATURATION; DNA STRAND; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA STABILITY; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77957236078     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq355     Document Type: Article

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