The Oct-1 POU-specific domain can stimulate small nuclear RNA gene transcription by stabilizing the basal transcription complex SNAPc

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1955-1965

  Mittal, Vivek ^a,b   Cleary, Michele A ^b,c   Herr, Winship ^b   Hernandez, Nouria ^a,b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Watson School of Biological Sciences   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HOST CELL FACTOR C1; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-1; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-2; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE I; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TATA BOX; TATA-BOX BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT-1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029911579     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.5.1955     Document Type: Article

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