Cooperative assembly of RNA polymerase II transcription complexes

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 63, Issue , 1998, Pages 253-261

  Ellwood, K ^a   Chi, T ^b   Huang, W ^a   Mitsouras, K ^a   Carey, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ALPHA AMANITIN; DNA POLYMERASE; IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN BZLF1; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; THYMIDINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UPSTREAM STIMULATORY FACTOR;

BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME MECHANISM; GENE ACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; BINDING AFFINITY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TATA BOX;

EID: 0032466862     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1998.63.253     Document Type: Conference Paper

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