Stepwise recruitment of components of the preinitiation complex by upstream activators in vivo

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2876-2883

  He, Song ^a   Weintraub, Steven Jay ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN TARGETING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0031893016     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.18.5.2876     Document Type: Article

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