Structural basis for promoter specificity switching of RNA polymerase by a phage factor

Genes and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 521-531

  Tagami, Shunsuke ^a,g   Sekine, Shun Ichi ^a   Minakhin, Leonid ^b   Esyunina, Daria ^c,d   Akasaka, Ryogo ^a   Shirouzu, Mikako ^a   Kulbachinskiy, Andrey ^c   Severinov, Konstantin ^b,e,f   Yokoyama, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e SKOLKOVO INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^f PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^g MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; RNA polymerase; Transcription control; Transcription factor; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 39; HOLOENZYME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE P23-45; BETA FLAP DOMAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SWITCHING; GENE TRANSCRIPTION INHIBITION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIOPHAGE; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION CONTROL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; HOLOENZYMES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84896883457     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.233916.113     Document Type: Article

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