The RNA polymerase II general transcription factors: Past, present, and future

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 63, Issue , 1998, Pages 83-103

  Reinberg, D ^a   Orphanides, G ^c   Ebright, R ^a,b   Akoulitchev, S ^c   Carcamo, J ^c   Cho, H ^c   Cortes, P ^c   Drapkin, R ^c   Flores, O ^c   Ha, I ^c   Inostroza, J A ^c   Kim, S ^c   Kim, T K ^c   Kumar, P ^c   Lagrange, T ^c   LeRoy, G ^c   Lu, H ^c   Ma, D M ^c   Maldonado, E ^c   Merino, A ^c   Mermelstein, F ^c   Olave, I ^c   Sheldon, M ^c   Shiekhattar, R ^c   Stone, N ^c   Sun, X ^c   Weis, L ^c   Yeung, K ^c   Zawel, L ^c   more..

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHICKEN OVALBUMIN UPSTREAM PROMOTER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 7; DNA FRAGMENT; GENERAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TATA BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIH;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA CROSS LINKING; DNA TEMPLATE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0032450480     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1998.63.83     Document Type: Conference Paper

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