Molecular structures of unbound and transcribing RNA polymerase III

Nature

Volumn 528, Issue 7581, 2015, Pages 231-236

  Hoffmann, Niklas A ^a   Jakobi, Arjen J ^a,b   Moreno Morcillo, María ^a,c   Glatt, Sebastian ^a,d   Kosinski, Jan ^a   Hagen, Wim J H ^a   Sachse, Carsten ^a   Müller, Christoph W ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c Centro Nacional de Investigations Oncológicas   (Spain)

^d JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; PROTEIN BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; DNA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DNA STRAND; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA POLYMERASE III; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 84949797800     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature16143     Document Type: Article

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