The β Subunit Gate Loop Is Required for RNA Polymerase Modification by RfaH and NusG

Molecular Cell

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 253-262

  Sevostyanova, Anastasia ^a   Belogurov, Georgiy A ^a   Mooney, Rachel A ^b   Landick, Robert ^b   Artsimovitch, Irina ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RFAH PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; ISOMERIZATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA BINDING; RNA STRUCTURE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OPERON; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79960449643     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2011.05.026     Document Type: Article

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