Recent advances in the understanding of archaeal transcription

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 328-334

  Grohmann, Dina ^a   Werner, Finn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; CHROMATIN; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARCHAEA; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA, ARCHAEAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 79959298162     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2011.04.012     Document Type: Review

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