An activator target in the RNA polymerase II holoenzyme

Molecular Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 895-904

  Koh, Sang Seok ^a,b   Ansari, Aseem Z ^c   Ptashne, Mark ^c   Young, Richard A ^a,b  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS LINKING REAGENT; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GAL4 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SRB2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SRB4 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SRB5 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SRB6 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; COENZYME; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTAGENESIS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECTROSCOPY;

BINDING SITES; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; COENZYMES; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032059891     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80088-X     Document Type: Article

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