Interaction of PC4 with melted DNA inhibits transcription

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 5103-5111

  Werten, Sebastiaan ^a   Stelzer, Gertraud ^c   Goppelt, Andreas ^c   Langen, Friso M ^a   Gros, Piet ^b   Timmers, H T M ^a   Van Der Vliet, Peter C ^a   Meisterernst, Michael ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cofactors; DNA binding proteins; General transcription factors; Transcriptional regulation; Transcriptional repression

Indexed keywords

CHICKEN OVALBUMIN UPSTREAM PROMOTER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL FUNCTION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, TFII; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0032168478     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.17.5103     Document Type: Article

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