Yeast HMG proteins NHP6A/B potentiate promoter-specific transcriptional activation in vivo and assembly of preinitiation complexes in vitro

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 2769-2781

  Paull, Tanya T ^a,b   Carey, Michael ^a   Johnson, Reid C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA bending; High mobility group proteins; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; transcription

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA STRUCTURE; FUNGAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0029825332     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.21.2769     Document Type: Article

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