Found: The elusive ANTAR transcription antiterminator

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Stewart, Valley ^a   van Tilbeurgh, Herman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIR PROTEIN; EUTV PROTEIN; NASR PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTITERMINATOR PROTEINS, BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANTAR DOMAIN; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; BACTERIUM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; INVERTED REPEAT; METABOLISM; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REGULATOR GENE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TERMINATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84864057705     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002773     Document Type: Article

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