The HMG-box mitochondrial transcription factor xl-mtTFA binds DNA as a tetramer to activate bidirectional transcription

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 3198-3206

  Antoshechkin, Igor ^a   Bogenhagen, Daniel F ^a   Mastrangelo, Iris A ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

HMG box; Mitochondria; MtTFA; STEM; Transcription

Indexed keywords

DIMER; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TETRAMER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GLUTARAL; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MITOCHONDRIA; NUCLEOPROTEINS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0030946172     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.11.3198     Document Type: Article

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