Transcriptional activation domains stimulate initiation and elongation at different times and via different residues

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3146-3154

  Brown, Steven A ^a,b   Weirich, Christine S ^a   Newton, Elizabeth M ^a,c   Kingston, Robert E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat shock; Nucleosomes; Transcriptional activation; Transcriptional elongation

Indexed keywords

ETOPOSIDE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; HYBRID PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSOMES; PEPTIDE CHAIN ELONGATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

HERPES; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 0032101064     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.11.3146     Document Type: Article

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