Visualizing translocation dynamics and nascent transcript errors in paused RNA polymerases in vivo

Genome Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Imashimizu, Masahiko ^a   Takahashi, Hiroki ^b   Oshima, Taku ^c   McIntosh, Carl ^a   Bubunenko, Mikhail ^a   Court, Donald L ^a   Kashlev, Mikhail ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; DNA; GUANINE; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA' SUBUNIT OF RNA POLYMERASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GREA PROTEIN, E COLI; GREB PROTEIN, E COLI; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FOOTPRINTING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE LIBRARY; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CPG ISLANDS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, ANTISENSE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84939159330     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-015-0666-5     Document Type: Article

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