τ91, an essential subunit of yeast transcription factor IIIC cooperates with τ138 in DNA binding

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-9

  Arrebola, Rosalía ^a   Manaud, Nathalie ^a   Rozenfeld, Sophie ^a   Marsolier, Marie Claude ^a   Lefebvre, Olivier ^a   Carles, Christophe ^a   Thuriaux, Pierre ^a   Conesa, Christine ^a   Sentenac, André ^a  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; TAU 138 PROTEIN; TAU 91 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 3C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR III; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIIC;

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, TFIII;

EID: 0031594706     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.18.1.1     Document Type: Article

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