How the ubiquitin-proteasome system controls transcription

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 192-201

  Muratani, Masafumi ^a,b   Tansey, William P ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b WATSON SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR4; ELONGATION FACTOR; PROTEASOME; RNA POLYMERASE; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UBIQUITIN;

CHROMATIN; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ENDOPEPTIDASES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITINS;

EID: 0037335034     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1049     Document Type: Review

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