The TFIIIC90 subunit of TFIIIC interacts with multiple components of the RNA polymerase III machinery and contains a histone-specific acetyltransferase activity

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 7697-7704

  Hsieh, Yng Ju ^a   Kundu, Tapas K ^a   Wang, Zhengxin ^a   Kovelman, Robert ^a,b   Roeder, Robert G ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CELGENE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; HISTONE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ENZYME SUBUNIT; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

EID: 0032744688     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.11.7697     Document Type: Article

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