Expression and purification of recombinant hRPABC25, hRPABC17, and hRPABC14.4, three essential subunits of human RNA polymerases I, II, and III

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 198-204

  Hiremath, Chaitanya N ^a   Ladias, John A A ^a  

^a Division of Behavioral Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; GEL FILTRATION; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PURIFICATION; RIBOSOMAL RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSFER RNA; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0032126885     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/prep.1998.0889     Document Type: Article

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