The TATA box binding protein

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 69-75

  Burley, Stephen K ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFER RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; EUKARYOTE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TATA BOX;

ARABIDOPSIS; EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0029862953     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(96)80097-2     Document Type: Article

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