The Spt components of SAGA facilitate TBP binding to a promoter at a post-activator-binding step in vivo

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 2940-2945

  Dudley, Aimée M ^a   Rougeulle, Claire ^a,b   Winston, Fred ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

S. cerevisiae; SAGA complex; Spt3; TBP; Transcription

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; TATA BINDING PROTEIN;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ACETYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME INDUCTION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GALACTOKINASE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TATA-BOX BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032710459     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.22.2940     Document Type: Article

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