A novel 66-kilodalton protein complexes with Rrn6, Rrn7, and TATA- binding protein to promote polymerase I transcription initiation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 6436-6443

  Lin, Chen Wei ^a   Moorefield, Beth ^a   Payne, John ^a   Aprikian, Pavel ^a   Mitomo, Katsuyuki ^a   Reeder, Ronald H ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0006781132     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.11.6436     Document Type: Article

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