RNA polymerase pausing and nascent-RNA structure formation are linked through clamp-domain movement

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 794-802

  Hein, Pyae P ^a   Kolb, Kellie E ^a   Windgassen, Tricia ^a   Bellecourt, Michael J ^a   Darst, Seth A ^b   Mooney, Rachel A ^a   Landick, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; DISULFIDE; NASCENT RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DISULFIDE BOND; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA FOLDING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSPORT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA FOLDING;

EID: 84921960363     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2867     Document Type: Article

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