The Gcn4p activation domain interacts specifically in vitro with RNA polymerase II holoenzyme, TFIID, and the Adap-Gcn5p coactivator complex

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1711-1724

  Drysdale, Connie M ^a   Jackson, Belinda M ^a   McVeigh, Richard ^a   Klebanow, Edward R ^b   Bai, Yu ^b   Kokubo, Tetsuro ^a,d   Swanson, Mark ^a   Nakatani, Yoshihiro ^a   Weil, P Anthony ^b   Hinnebusch, Alan G ^a,c  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031935595     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.3.1711     Document Type: Article

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