The fission yeast rpa17+ gene encodes a functional homolog of AC19, a subunit of RNA polymerases I and III of saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 261, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 364-373

  Imai, K ^a,b   Imazawa, Y ^a,b   Yao, Y ^c   Yamamoto, K ^d   Hisatake, K ^a   Muramatsu, M ^a   Nogi, Y ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

subunit; Deletion analysis; Interspecific complementation; RNA polymerase I; Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE I; RNA POLYMERASE III; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0033024978     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050977     Document Type: Article

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