Structural transitions in the transcription elongation complexes of bacterial RNA polymerase during σ-dependent pausing

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3078-3091

  Zhilina, Ekaterina ^a   Esyunina, Daria ^a,b   Brodolin, Konstantin ^c   Kulbachinskiy, Andrey ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; INITIATION FACTOR; INITIATION FACTOR DELTA 70; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RNA SYNTHESIS;

DNA; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; POTASSIUM PERMANGANATE; RNA; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

EID: 84860114759     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr1158     Document Type: Article

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