The promoter-search mechanism of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase is dominated by three-dimensional diffusion

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 174-181

  Wang, Feng ^a   Redding, Sy ^a   Finkelstein, Ilya J ^a,b   Gorman, Jason ^a,b,c   Reichman, David R ^a   Greene, Eric C ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; THREE DIMENSIONAL DIFFUSION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DIFFUSION; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84873558007     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2472     Document Type: Article

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