The Rpb6 subunit of fission yeast RNA polymerase II is a contact target of the transcription elongation factor TFIIS

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1263-1270

  Ishiguro, Akira ^a,b,c   Nogi, Yasuhisa ^c   Hisatake, Koji ^c   Muramatsu, Masami ^c   Ishihama, Akira ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZAURACIL; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA PRIMERS; GENE DELETION; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RNA POLYMERASE II; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, GENERAL; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

EID: 0033959621     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.4.1263-1270.2000     Document Type: Article

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