The transcriptional apparatus required for mRNA encoding genes in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae emerges from a jigsaw puzzle of transcription factors

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 117-136

  Künzler, Markus ^a,b,c   Springer, Christoph ^a,b   Braus, Gerhard H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

promoter; RNA polymerase II holoenzyme; transcription; yeast

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

DNA TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EVOLUTION; GENES, FUNGAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030466036     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(96)00027-7     Document Type: Review

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