Functional conservation of RNA polymerase II in fission and budding yeasts

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 295, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1119-1127

  Shpakovski, George V ^a,b   Gadal, Olivier ^a   Labarre Mariotte, Sylvie ^a   Lebedenko, Ekaterina N ^b   Miklos, Ida ^c,e   Sakurai, Hitomi ^d   Proshkin, Sergey A ^b   Van Mullem, Vincent ^a,e   Ishihama, Akira ^d   Thuriaux, Pierre ^a  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

^b SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

RNA polymerase; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Schizosaccharomyces pombe; Transcription

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE II;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0034602927     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3399     Document Type: Article

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