Polarity of transcription on Pol II and Archaeal promoters: Where is the 'one-way sign' and how is it read?

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 63, Issue , 1998, Pages 53-61

  Tsai, F T F ^a   Littlefield, O ^a   Kosa, P P ^a,b   Cox, J M ^a   Schepartz, A ^a   Sigler, P B ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BINDING SITE; DNA CLEAVAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA TRANSLATION; STRUCTURAL PROTEOMICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; YEAST;

EID: 0032451003     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1998.63.53     Document Type: Conference Paper

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