A single point mutation in TFIIA suppresses NC2 requirement in vivo

EMBO Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 672-682

  Xie, Jun ^a   Collart, Martine ^b   Lemaire, Marc ^b   Stelzer, Gertraud ^a   Meisterernst, Michael ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Negative cofactor 2; Suppressor screen; Transcriptional activation; Transcriptional repression

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SYNTHESIS; YEAST;

EID: 0034651596     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.4.672     Document Type: Article

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