The RNA polymerase trigger loop functions in all three phases of the transcription cycle

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 7048-7059

  Fouqueau, Thomas ^a   Zeller, Mirijam E ^a   Cheung, Alan C ^b   Cramer, Patrick ^b   Thomm, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMINE; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TRIGGER LOOP;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; RNA; RNA CLEAVAGE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84881517901     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt433     Document Type: Article

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