Two-dimensional crystallography of TFIIB-and IIE-RNA polymerase II complexes: Implications for start site selection and initiation complex formation

Cell

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 773-779

  Leuther, Kerstin K ^a   Bushnell, David A ^a   Kornberg, Roger D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME CONFORMATION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030014797     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81242-8     Document Type: Article

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