Rates of Gyrase Supercoiling and Transcription Elongation Control Supercoil Density in a Bacterial Chromosome

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Rovinskiy, Nikolay ^a   Agbleke, Andrews Akwasi ^a   Chesnokova, Olga ^a   Pang, Zhenhua ^a,b   Higgins, N Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b Cathay Industrial Biotech   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); DNA TOPOISOMERASE IV; RESOLVASE; RIFAMPICIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SUPERCOILING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LACTOSE OPERON; LEFT MACRODOMAIN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTANT IMPACT FACTOR; NONHUMAN; OPERON; ORI MACRODOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RESOLUTION EFFICIENCY; RIGHT MACRODOMAIN; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SALMONELLA; SENSOR; SUPERCOIL DENSITY; SUPERCOIL SENSOR; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; TER MACRODOMAIN; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA GYRASE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; LAC OPERON; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECOMBINASES; RIFAMPIN; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 84866147787     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002845     Document Type: Article

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