Molecular assembly of RNA polymerase II from the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe: Subunit-subunit contact network involving Rpb5

Genes to Cells

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 843-854

  Miyao, Takenori ^a,b   Yasui, Kiyoshi ^a,c   Sakurai, Hitomi ^a   Yamagishi, Masahiro ^a,d   Ishihama, Akira ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^d AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE II;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA POLYMERASE II; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0030228742     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1996.730274.x     Document Type: Article

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