Millisecond dynamics of RNA polymerase II translocation at atomic resolution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 7665-7670

  Silva, Daniel Adriano ^a   Weiss, Dahlia R ^b   Avila, Fátima Pardo ^a   Da, Lin Tai ^a   Levitt, Michael ^c   Wang, Dong ^d   Huang, Xuhui ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Markov state model; Molecular dynamics; Trigger loop

Indexed keywords

DNA; MAGNESIUM ION; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

MARKOV STATE MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; TRIGGER LOOP;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA POLYMERASE II; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84901684210     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1315751111     Document Type: Article

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