Bending the rules of transcriptional repression: tightly looped DNA directly represses T7 RNA polymerase.

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Published in Biophys J on August 09, 2010

Authors

Troy A Lionberger1, Edgar Meyhöfer

Author Affiliations

1: Cellular and Molecular Biology Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

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