Elongator, a multisubunit component of a novel RNA polymerase II holoenzyme for transcriptional elongation

Molecular Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 109-118

  Otero, Gabriel ^a   Fellows, Jane ^a   Yang, Li ^b,d   De Bizemont, Therese ^a   Dirac, Annette M G ^a   Gustafsson, Claes M ^b,e   Erdjument Bromage, Hediye ^c   Tempst, Paul ^c   Svejstrup, Jesper Q ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d AMGEN INC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ARTICLE; GENE ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032971711     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80179-3     Document Type: Article

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