Fission yeast contains an rDNA binding activity that interacts specifically with regulatory sequences for ribosomal RNA synthesis

Gene

Volumn 242, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 183-192

  Guo, Ailan ^a   Chen, Ling ^a   Zhao, Annie ^a   Boukghalter, Boris ^a   Pape, Louise ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Promoter; RNA polymerase I; Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SYNTHESIS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BINDING SITES; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0033979177     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00527-2     Document Type: Article

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