Yeast SUB1 is a suppressor of TFIIB mutations and has homology to the human co-activator PC4

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1933-1940

  Knaus, Rainer ^a,b   Pollock, Roy ^a,c   Guarente, Leonard ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Asia Medica AG   (Germany)

^c Auad Pharmaceuticals   (United States)

Author keywords

Co activator; Genetics; SUB 1; TFIIB; Transcription

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 0029872724     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00544.x     Document Type: Article

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