Functional analysis of Thermus thermophilus transcription factor NusG

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 7432-7445

  Sevostyanova, Anastasiya ^a   Artsimovitch, Irina ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NUSG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SIGMA FACTOR; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 78649866419     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq623     Document Type: Article

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