Isolation and characterization of transcription fidelity mutants

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1819, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 694-699

  Strathern, Jeffrey N ^a   Jin, Ding Jun ^a   Court, Donald L ^a   Kashlev, Mikhail ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

NTP misincorporation; RNA polymerase; Slippage; Transcription fidelity

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; RNA POLYMERASE;

BACTERIUM MUTANT; BASE MISPAIRING; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION FIDELITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; MUTATION; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84861900573     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2012.02.005     Document Type: Review

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