Bending the rules of transcriptional repression: Tightly looped DNA directly represses T7 RNA polymerase

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1139-1148

  Lionberger, Troy A ^a   Meyhöfer, Edgar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 77958163968     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.04.074     Document Type: Article

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