A multipronged strategy of an anti-terminator protein to overcome Rho-dependent transcription termination

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 11213-11228

  Muteeb, Ghazala ^a   Dey, Debashish ^a   Mishra, Saurabh ^a   Sen, Ranjan ^a  

^a Center for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANTI TERMINATOR PROTEIN; BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NUSA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; RHO FACTOR; RNA, BACTERIAL; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRAL REGULATORY AND ACCESSORY PROTEINS;

EID: 84871209292     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks872     Document Type: Article

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