A specialized form of RNA polymerase I, essential for initiation and growth-dependent regulation of rRNA synthesis, is disrupted during transcription

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 3692-3703

  Milkereit, Philipp ^a   Tschochner, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

In vitro transcription; Initiation; Rrn3p; rRNA promoter; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STOICHIOMETRY;

ANIMALS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; POL1 TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION COMPLEX PROTEINS; RABBITS; RNA POLYMERASE I; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032126616     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.13.3692     Document Type: Article

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