A Two-Way Street: Regulatory Interplay between RNA Polymerase and Nascent RNA Structure

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 293-310

  Zhang, Jinwei ^a   Landick, Robert ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

RNA polymerase; RNA processing; RNA structure; termination and antitermination; transcriptional pausing

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR; ELONGATION FACTOR NUSA; ELONGATION FACTOR NUSG; MESSENGER RNA; NASCENT RNA; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; NUSA PROTEIN, E COLI; NUSG PROTEIN, E COLI; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MODIFIER GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIBOSWITCH; RNA FOLDING; RNA HAIRPIN; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

EID: 84955600694     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: 13624326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2015.12.009     Document Type: Review

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