Structural basis of transcription initiation by bacterial RNA polymerase holoenzyme

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 289, Issue 35, 2014, Pages 24549-24559

  Basu, Ritwika S ^a   Warner, Brittany A ^a,d   Molodtsov, Vadim ^a   Pupov, Danil ^c   Esyunina, Daria ^c   Fernández Tornero, Carlos ^b   Kulbachinskiy, Andrey ^c   Murakami, Katsuhiko S ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^d JANSSEN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION;

PHOSPHODIESTER BONDS; RIBONUCLEOSIDES; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE HOLOENZYMES; RNA SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURAL BASIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION START SITE;

RNA;

HOLOENZYME; RNA POLYMERASE; BACTERIAL DNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 84906861221     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M114.584037     Document Type: Article

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