Transcriptional regulation through Mediator-like coactivators in yeast and metazoan cells

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 277-283

  Malik, Sohail ^a   Roeder, Robert G ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOENZYME; PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II;

COMPLEX FORMATION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; MEDIATOR; METAZOON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEPTIDES; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; YEASTS;

EUKARYOTA; METAZOA;

EID: 0034212441     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-0004(00)01596-6     Document Type: Review

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