The yeast RNA polymerase III transcription machinery: A paradigm for eukaryotic gene activation

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 63, Issue , 1998, Pages 381-389

  Chedin S ^a   Ferri, M L ^a   Peyroche, G ^a   Andrau, J C ^a   Jourdain, S ^a   Lefebvre, O ^a   Werner, M ^a   Carles, C ^a   Sentenac, A ^a  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; HOLOENZYME; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR III;

CONFERENCE PAPER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BINDING SITE; CELL ELONGATION; DNA STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

EID: 0032450984     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1998.63.381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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