NusG/Spt5: Are there common functions of this ubiquitous transcription elongation factor?

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 68-71

  Yakhnin, Alexander V ^a   Babitzke, Paul ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NUSG PROTEIN; RFAH PROTEIN; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; SPT5 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; ELONGATION FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; NUSG PROTEIN, E COLI; RFAH PROTEIN, E COLI; SPT5 TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTOR; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CHROMATIN; DNA BINDING; DNA STRAND; DNA TEMPLATE; NONHUMAN; PARALOGY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; BACTERIA; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; METABOLISM;

BACTERIA; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EUKARYOTA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

EID: 84896000321     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2014.02.005     Document Type: Review

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