Complete dissection of transcription elongation reveals slow translocation of RNA polymerase II in a linear ratchet mechanism

eLife

Volumn 2013, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Dangkulwanich, Manchuta ^a   Ishibashi, Toyotaka ^a,b   Liu, Shixin ^a   Kireeva, Maria L ^c   Lubkowska, Lucyna ^c   Kashlev, Mikhail ^c   Bustamante, Carlos J ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENZYME KINETICS; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE TRANSLOCATION; LINEAR BROWNIAN RATCHET MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; VELOCITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84884682805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.00971     Document Type: Article

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