Mycobacterial RNA polymerase forms unstable open promoter complexes that are stabilized by CarD
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Mycobacterial RNA polymerase forms unstable open promoter complexes that are stabilized by CarD
Escherichia coli has served as the archetypal organism on which the overwhelming majority of biochemical characterizations of bacterial RNA polymerase (RNAP) have been focused; the properties of E. coli RNAP have been accepted as generally representative for all bacterial RNAPs. Here, we directly compare the initiation properties of a mycobacterial transcription system with E. coli RNAP on two ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nucleic Acids Research
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1362-4962,0305-1048
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1231