Bridged filaments of histone-like nucleoid structuring protein pause RNA polymerase and aid termination in bacteria

eLife

Volumn 2015, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Kotlajich, Matthew V ^a   Hron, Daniel R ^a   Boudreau, Beth A ^a   Sun, Zhiqiang ^b   Lyubchenko, Yuri L ^b   Landick, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

GreB; H NS; NusG; Pausing; RfaH; Rho; RNAP; Termination; Transcription

Indexed keywords

HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; H-NS PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; BACTERIUM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84995923544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.04970     Document Type: Article

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