Impact of template backbone heterogeneity on RNA polymerase II transcription

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2232-2241

  Xu, Liang ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Zhang, Lu ^b   Chong, Jenny ^a   Huang, Xuhui ^b   Wang, Dong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE II;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DNA TEMPLATE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; METABOLISM;

DNA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEOTIDES; RNA POLYMERASE II; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84944705983     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv059     Document Type: Article

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