Subunits of yeast RNA polymerases: Structure and function

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 190-196

  Ishihama, Akira ^a   Kimura, Makoto ^a   Mitsuzawa, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; REVIEW; YEAST;

DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; RNA POLYMERASE I; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA POLYMERASE III; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; YEASTS;

EID: 0032035316     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1369-5274(98)80010-6     Document Type: Article

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