Mutations in β' subunit of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase perturb the activator polymerase functional interaction required for promoter clearance

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1169-1185

  Swapna, Ganduri ^a   Chakraborty, Atanu ^a,d   Kumari, Vandana ^a   Sen, Ranjan ^b   Nagaraja, Valakunja ^a,c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b CENTRE FOR DNA FINGERPRINTING AND DIAGNOSTICS   (India)

^c JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

^d IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C; RNA POLYMERASE;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL FILTRATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA SYNTHESIS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BACTERIOPHAGE MU; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BINDING SITES; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE MU; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79957445257     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07636.x     Document Type: Article

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