RNA polymerase approaches its promoter without long-range sliding along DNA

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

Volumn 110, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 9740-9745

  Friedman, Larry J ^a   Mumm, Jeffrey P ^a   Gelles, Jeff ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

1D diffusion; Total internal reflection fluorescence; Transcription initiation

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; DNA STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; SPECTROSCOPY;

1D DIFFUSION; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION FLUORESCENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DIFFUSION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84878959439     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1300221110     Document Type: Article

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