TRAP binding to the Bacillus subtilis trp leader region RNA causes efficient transcription termination at a weak intrinsic terminator

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2092-2102

  Potter, Kristine D ^a   Merlino, Natalie M ^a   Jacobs, Timothy ^a   Gollnick, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TRP RNA BINDING ATTENUATION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOTINYLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE TRANSLOCATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONTENT; RNA STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; BINDING SITES; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; OPERON; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TERMINATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPTOPHAN;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 79953716258     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq965     Document Type: Article

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