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Allosteric control of catalysis by the F loop of RNA polymerase.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 10 Nov 2009
Miropolskaya Nataliya, Artsimovitch Irina, Klimasauskas Saulius, Nikiforov Vadim, Kulbachinskiy Andrey
Abstract excerpt
Bacterial RNA polymerases (RNAPs) undergo coordinated conformational changes during catalysis. In particular, concerted folding of the trigger loop and rearrangements of the bridge helix at the RNAP active center have been implicated in nucleotide addition and RNAP translocation. At moderate temperatures, the rate of catalysis by RNAP from thermophilic Thermus aquaticus is dramatically reduced compared with its...
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