Transcription: Building an initiation machine

Current Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 401-403

  Travers, Andrew ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE; RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIB;

ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; TATA BOX;

ANIMALS; CYCLINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HISTONES; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BOX; TATA-BOX BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030113607     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)00507-9     Document Type: Article

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