Small subunits of RNA polymerase: Localization, levels and implications for core enzyme composition

Microbiology

Volumn 156, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3532-3543

  Doherty, Geoff P ^a   Fogg, Mark J ^b   Wilkinson, Anthony J ^b   Lewis, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE DELTA SUBUNIT; RNA POLYMERASE OMEGA SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELL NUCLEOLUS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 78649746719     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.041566-0     Document Type: Article

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