Mechanism of promoter escape by RNA polymerase II

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 63, Issue , 1998, Pages 357-364

  Conaway, J W ^a,b   Dvir, A ^c   Moreland, R J ^a,b   Yan, Q ^a,b   Elmendorf, B J ^a,b   Tan, S ^d   Conaway, R C ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE II; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE DERIVATIVE; POLYPEPTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIF; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONFERENCE PAPER; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

EID: 0032457661     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1998.63.357     Document Type: Conference Paper

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