RRN3 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes an essential RNA polymerase I transcription factor which interacts with the polymerase independently of DNA template

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 3964-3973

  Yamamoto, Robert T ^a   Nogi, Yasuhisa ^b   Dodd, Jonathan A ^a   Nomura, Masayasu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

rDNA transcription; RNA polymerase I; RRN3 gene; Transcription factor; Yeast

Indexed keywords

DETERGENT; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RIBOSOME DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TEMPLATE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0029740752     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00770.x     Document Type: Article

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