Distinct functions of regions 1.1 and 1.2 of RNA polymerase σ subunits from Escherichia coli and Thermus aquaticus in transcription initiation

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 23779-23789

  Miropolskaya, Nataliya ^a   Ignatov, Artem ^a,b   Bass, Irina ^a   Zhilina, Ekaterina ^a   Pupov, Danil ^a   Kulbachinskiy, Andrey ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; DNA MELTING; DNA NUCLEOTIDES; E. COLI; MESOPHILIC; N-TERMINALS; PROMOTER COMPLEXES; RNA POLYMERASE; THERMUS AQUATICUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACIDS; RNA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

NUCLEOTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COLD SENSITIVITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA DENATURATION; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THERMUS AQUATICUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COLD TEMPERATURE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGMA FACTOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THERMUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; THERMUS AQUATICUS;

EID: 84863621066     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.363242     Document Type: Article

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