Evidence that Spt4, Spt5, and Spt6 control transcription elongation by RNA polymerase II in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 357-369

  Hartzog, Grant A ^a   Wada, Tadashi ^b   Handa, Hiroshi ^b   Winston, Fred ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chromatin; NusG; Spt4; Spt5; Spt6; Transcription elongation

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR; RNA POLYMERASE II;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032004953     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.3.357     Document Type: Article

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