Structural basis for the bacterial transcription-repair coupling factor/RNA polymerase interaction

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 8357-8369

  Westblade, Lars F ^a   Campbell, Elizabeth A ^a   Pukhrambam, Chirangini ^b   Padovan, Julio C ^a   Nickels, Bryce E ^b   Lamour, Valerie ^a   Darst, Seth A ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN CARD; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION REPAIR COUPLING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUPLING FACTOR; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EXCISION REPAIR; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 78650415624     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq692     Document Type: Article

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