Transcription factor GreA contributes to resolving promoter-proximal pausing of RNA polymerase in Bacillus subtilis cells

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3090-3099

  Kusuya, Yoko ^a   Kurokawa, Ken ^b   Ishikawa, Shu ^a   Ogasawara, Naotake ^a   Oshima, Taku ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GREA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; CHROMATIN AFFINITY PRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79958056034     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00086-11     Document Type: Article

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