Crystal structures of the e.coli transcription initiation complexes with a complete bubble

Molecular Cell

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 534-540

  Zuo, Yuhong ^a   Steitz, Thomas A ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FUNGAL DNA; PROTEIN BINDING;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA STRAND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84928928161     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.03.010     Document Type: Article

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