Yeast RNA polymerase II at 5 å resolution

Cell

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 799-810

  Fu, Jianhua ^a   Gnatt, Averell L ^a   Bushnell, David A ^a   Jensen, Grant J ^a   Thompson, Nancy E ^b   Burgess, Richard R ^b   David, Peter R ^a   Kornberg, Roger D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA TEMPLATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; YEAST;

EID: 0033578689     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81514-7     Document Type: Article

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