Structure of wild-type yeast RNA polymerase II and location of Rpb4 and Rpb7

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2353-2358

  Jensen, Grant J ^a   Meredith, Gavin ^a   Bushnell, David A ^a   Kornberg, Roger D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron crystallography; Rpb4; Rpb7; Transcription

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; YEAST;

BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TATA-BOX BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032522546     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.8.2353     Document Type: Article

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