Direct interactions between the coiled-coil tip of DksA and the trigger loop of RNA polymerase mediate transcriptional regulation

Genes and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 2634-2646

  Lennon, Christopher W ^a   Ross, Wilma ^a   Martin Tumasz, Stephen ^a   Toulokhonov, Innokenti ^a   Vrentas, Catherine E ^a   Rutherford, Steven T ^a   Lee, Jeong Hyun ^a   Butcher, Samuel E ^a   Gourse, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

DksA; PpGpp; Promoter; Ribosome synthesis; RNA polymerase; Transcription initiation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; N BENZOYLPHENYLALANINE; PROTEIN DKSA; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COILED BODY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DISULFIDE BOND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MAPPING; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHENYLALANINE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84870522491     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.204693.112     Document Type: Article

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