Signaling through sigma

被引:10
作者
Gralla, JD [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Chem & Biochem, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
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10.1038/76732
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Some prokaryotic transcriptional activators act by binding to enhancers and directly changing the conformation of a specialized sigma factor in the RNA polymerase holoenzyme. This mechanism has interesting parallels in other transcription systems.
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页码:530 / 532
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