Mutational analysis of yeast TFIIB: A functional relationship between Ssu72 and Sub1/Tsp1 defined by allele-specific interactions with TFIIB

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 643-652

  Wu, Wei Hua ^a,b   Pinto, Inés ^a,c   Chen, Bo Shiun ^b   Hampsey, Michael ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHICKEN OVALBUMIN UPSTREAM PROMOTER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; START CODON; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SUPPRESSOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

GALLUS GALLUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032871078     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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