Two transcription pause elements underlie a σ70-dependent pause cycle

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

Volumn 112, Issue 32, 2015, Pages E4374-E4380

  Strobel, Eric J ^a   Roberts, Jeffrey W ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Elemental pause; Factor dependent pausing; Transcription; Transcription pausing; dependent pausing

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONSENSUS; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIS GENE; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OPS GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROBABILITY; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDES; PROBABILITY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, BACTERIAL; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84938930573     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1512986112     Document Type: Article

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