Crossing the line between RNA polymerases: Transcription of human snRNA genes by RNA polymerases II and III

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 63, Issue , 1998, Pages 111-120

  Henry, R W ^a,d   Ford, E ^a,b   Mital, R ^a,e   Mittal, V ^a,c   Hernandez, N ^a,c  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Michigan State University   (United States)

^e ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; GROWTH PROMOTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIIB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA CROSS LINKING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATOR GENE; RNA SPLICING; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; DNA BINDING; DNA SYNTHESIS; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION ASSAY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA GENE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0032458244     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1998.63.111     Document Type: Conference Paper

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