Eukaryotic transcription factor-DNA complexes

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 26, Issue , 1997, Pages 289-325

  Patikoglou, G ^a   Burley, S K ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOPROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA SEQUENCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

DNA; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030943821     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.26.1.289     Document Type: Review

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