RNA polymerase II trigger loop residues stabilize and position the incoming nucleotide triphosphate in transcription

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

Volumn 107, Issue 36, 2010, Pages 15745-15750

  Huang, Xuhui ^a,b   Wang, Dong ^b,c   Weiss, Dahlia R ^b,d   Bushnell, David A ^b   Kornberg, Roger D ^b   Levitt, Michael ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nucleotide selection; Transcription fidelity

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 2; HISTONE; LEUCINE; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ATOM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTON TRANSPORT; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SIMULATION; WILD TYPE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYDROGEN BOND; METABOLISM;

HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEOTIDES; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77957678214     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1009898107     Document Type: Article

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