Basal transcription factors

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 114-118

  Reese, Joseph C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0037380150     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(03)00013-3     Document Type: Review

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