Crosslink Mapping at Amino Acid-Base Resolution Reveals the Path of Scrunched DNA in Initial Transcribing Complexes

Molecular Cell

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 768-780

  Winkelman, Jared T ^a   Winkelman, Bradford T ^a   Boyce, Julian ^a   Maloney, Michael F ^a   Chen, Albert Y ^a   Ross, Wilma ^a   Gourse, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; DNA BASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; RNA POLYMERASE; SOLVENT; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACIDS; BASE SEQUENCE; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RRNA OPERON; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84940898473     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.06.037     Document Type: Article

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