Dissecting the chemical interactions and substrate structural signatures governing RNA polymerase II trigger loop closure by synthetic nucleic acid analogues

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5863-5870

  Xu, Liang ^a   Butler, Kyle Vincent ^b   Chong, Jenny ^a   Wengel, Jesper ^c   Kool, Eric T ^b   Wang, Dong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMANITIN; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRIGGER LOOP;

ALPHA-AMANITIN; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; HYDROGEN BONDING; KINETICS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84901345829     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku238     Document Type: Article

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