Activator-independent functions of the yeast mediator Sin4 complex in preinitiation complex formation and transcription reinitiation

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 349-358

  Reeves, Wendy M ^a,b   Hahn, Steven ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN GAL11; PROTEIN MED2; PROTEIN PGD1; PROTEIN SIN4; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CELL EXTRACTS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TATA-BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, TFII; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0037214501     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.1.349-358.2003     Document Type: Article

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