Mechanism of transcriptional bursting in bacteria

Cell

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 314-326

  Chong, Shasha ^a   Chen, Chongyi ^a,b   Ge, Hao ^c   Xie, X Sunney ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; MESSENGER RNA; DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING);

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; DNA BINDING; DNA SUPERCOILING; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTIONAL BURSTING; BACTERIA; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENZYME BINDING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY;

DNA GYRASE; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84904582175     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.05.038     Document Type: Article

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