Staf, a promiscuous activator for enhanced transcription by RNA polymerases II and III

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 173-181

  Schaub, Myriam ^a   Myslinski, Evelyne ^a   Schuster, Catherine ^a   Krol, Alain ^a   Carbon, Philippe ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

RNA polymerase II; RNA polymerase III; snRNA genes; Transcriptional activator; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; RNA GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE I; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0031026368     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.1.173     Document Type: Article

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