Structural basis of RNA polymerase II backtracking, arrest and reactivation

Nature

Volumn 471, Issue 7337, 2011, Pages 249-253

  Cheung, Alan C M ^a   Cramer, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II;

CATALYSIS; CELL ORGANELLE; GENE EXPRESSION; INHIBITION; NUCLEIC ACID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESOLUTION; X-RAY; YEAST;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME REACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BIOCATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOVEMENT; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTONS; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS; TYROSINE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 79952440464     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09785     Document Type: Article

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