Primary Recipient

GOUCHER COLLEGE

Amount

$71,289.00

Award Date

8/13/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

The overall goal of this project is to elucidate the effects that local structural perturbations in DNA have on an advancing RNA polymerase (RNAP) as it transcribes DNA to form an RNA product. Transcription is the first step in the expression of genetic i