Applied Force Provides Insight into Transcriptional Pausing and Its Modulation by Transcription Factor NusA

Molecular Cell

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 635-646

  Zhou, Jing ^a   Ha, Kook Sun ^b   La Porta, Arthur ^c   Landick, Robert ^b   Block, Steven M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NUSA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DNA TEMPLATE; FORCE; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; RNA PROBE; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSCRIPTION PAUSING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; KINETICS; OPTICAL PROCESSES; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PLASMIDS; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 81355150826     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2011.09.018     Document Type: Article

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