Structural basis for RNA recognition by NusB and NusE in the initiation of transcription antitermination

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 7803-7815

  Stagno, Jason R ^a   Altieri, Amanda S ^b,e   Bubunenko, Mikhail ^c,d   Tarasov, Sergey G ^b   Li, Jess ^b   Court, Donald L ^c   Byrd, R Andrew ^b   Ji, Xinhua ^a  

^a Macromolecular Crystallography Laboratory   (United States)

^b Structural Biophysics Laboratory   (United States)

^c Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory   (United States)

^d SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; PROTEIN BOXA; PROTEIN NUSB; PROTEIN NUSE; RNA; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HYDROGEN BOND; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 80053183509     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr418     Document Type: Article

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