Mycobacterial RNA polymerase requires a U-tract at intrinsic terminators and is aided by NusG at suboptimal terminators

mBio

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Czyz, Agata ^a,b   Mooney, Rachel A ^a   Iaconi, Ala ^a,c   Landick, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b ILLUMINA INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; ELONGATION FACTOR; ELONGATION FACTOR NUSA; ELONGATION FACTOR NUSG; RNA POLYMERASE II; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; RNA PURIFICATION; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; U TRACT;

DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MYCOBACTERIUM; POLY U; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84899853384     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00931-14     Document Type: Article

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