RNA polymerase-promoter interactions determining different stability of the Escherichia coli and Thermus aquaticus transcription initiation complexes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 11352-11362

  Mekler, Vladimir ^a   Minakhin, Leonid ^a   Kuznedelov, Konstantin ^a   Mukhamedyarov, Damir ^a   Severinov, Konstantin ^a,b,c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROBE; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR BEACON; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMUS AQUATICUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA PROBES; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUOROMETRY; HOT TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SIGMA FACTOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THERMUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; THERMUS AQUATICUS;

EID: 84871188050     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks973     Document Type: Article

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