An RNA motif advances transcription by preventing Rho-dependent termination

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

Volumn 112, Issue 50, 2015, Pages E6835-E6843

  Sevostyanova, Anastasia ^a,b   Groisman, Eduardo A ^a,b,c   Roberts, Jeffrey W ^d  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Antitermination; MgtC; Rho dependent termination; Salmonella; Transcriptional polarity

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION FACTOR RHO; BACTERIAL RNA; RHO FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HAIRPIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA CONFORMATION; SALMONELLA; START CODON; STOP CODON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATOR GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RHO FACTOR; RNA, BACTERIAL; SALMONELLA; TERMINATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84948653589     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1515383112     Document Type: Article

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