Silkworm TFIIIB binds both constitutive and silk gland-specific tRNAAla promoters but protects only the constitutive promoter from DNase I cleavage

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1256-1266

  Young, Lisa S ^a   Ahnert, Nancy ^a   Sprague, Karen U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA CLEAVAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SILKWORM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BOMBYX; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, TRANSFER, ALA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIIB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BOMBYX MORI;

EID: 0030023628     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.3.1256     Document Type: Article

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