Insights into the mechanism of initial transcription in escherichia coli RNA polymerase

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 44, 2013, Pages 31993-32003

  Samanta, Satamita ^a   Martin, Craig T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYMES; BUBBLE COLLAPSE; CHAIN GROWTH; DRIVING FORCES; MECHANISTIC MODELING; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA-DNA HYBRIDS; T7 RNA POLYMERASE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; POLYMERS; PROTEINS; STABILITY; TRANSCRIPTION;

RNA;

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL RNA; DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA STRAND; DNA TEMPLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROMOTER REGION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

DNA-PROTEIN INTERACTION; ENZYME MECHANISMS; ENZYMOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID ENZYMOLOGY; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION;

DNA BREAKS, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84887058499     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.497669     Document Type: Article

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