Rho-dependent transcription termination is essential to prevent excessive genome-wide R-loops in Escherichia coli

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 258-263

  Leela, J Krishna ^a   Syeda, Aisha H ^a   Anupama, K ^a   Gowrishankar, J ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR DNA FINGERPRINTING AND DIAGNOSTICS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; RHO FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CELL POPULATION; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REPLICATION; LETHALITY; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA HELICASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; RHO FACTOR; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFITES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84871946865     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213123110     Document Type: Article

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