Binding and translocation of termination factor Rho studied at the single-molecule level

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 423, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 664-676

  Koslover, Daniel J ^a   Fazal, Furqan M ^a   Mooney, Rachel A ^b   Landick, Robert ^b   Block, Steven M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

force spectroscopy; optical trap; RNA polymerase; single molecule biophysics; transcription

Indexed keywords

RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION FACTOR RHO;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA BINDING; SPECTROSCOPY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84867574405     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2012.07.027     Document Type: Article

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