Two large subunits of the fission yeast RNA polymerase II provide platforms for the assembly of small subunits

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 279, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 703-712

  Ishiguro, Akira ^a,b   Kimura, Makoto ^a   Yasui, Kiyoshi ^a,b   Iwata, Akira ^c   Ueda, Susumu ^c   Ishihama, Akira ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c NIPPON INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemical crosslinking; Far Western blotting; RNA polymerase; Subunit assembly

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE II;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CROSS LINKING; ENZYME SUBUNIT; IMMUNOBLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032546738     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1823     Document Type: Article

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