Position-specific inhibition of yeast mitochondrial transcription by a poly(T) sequence

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 275, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 547-560

  Biswas, Tapan K ^a   Getz, Godfrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Mitochondrial gene; Polyuridine sequence; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Transcriptional inhibition

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; POLYNUCLEOTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE; THYMIDINE; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032579347     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1483     Document Type: Article

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