Mapping of catalytic residues in the RNA polymerase active center

Science

Volumn 273, Issue 5271, 1996, Pages 107-108

  Zaychikov, Evgeny ^a   Martin, Emil ^b   Denissova, Ludmila ^a   Kozlov, Maxim ^b   Markovtsov, Vadim ^b   Kashlev, Mikhail ^b   Heumann, Hermann ^c   Nikiforov, Vadim ^b   Goldfarb, Alex ^b   Mustaev, Arkady ^b  

^a LIMNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MAPPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 9344221087     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5271.107     Document Type: Article

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28. Supported by a grant from NIH (to A.G.), by a grant from Deutsche Forschung-Gemeinschaft (to H.H.), and by a Fogarty International Research Collaboration Award grant (to A.G. and E.Z.). We are grateful to S. Borukhov and E. Nudler for comments.