Identification of three regions essential for interaction between a σ- like factor and core RNA polymerase

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 2897-2909

  Cliften, Paul F ^a   Park, Jae Young ^b   Davis, Brian P ^a   Jang, Sei Heon ^b   Jaehning, Judith A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Daegu University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Mitochondrial transcription; MTF1; RNA polymerase; RPO41; Transcription initiation; Two hybrid; factor

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; YEAST CELL;

EID: 0030813608     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.21.2897     Document Type: Article

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