Evolution of multisubunit RNA polymerases in the three domains of life

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 85-98

  Werner, Finn ^a   Grohmann, Dina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA; ELONGATION FACTOR; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANCRIPTION FACTOR NUSG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SPT 5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; CAMPYLOBACTER; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DNA DENATURATION; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELICOBACTER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

EID: 78651504121     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2507     Document Type: Review

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