The carboxy terminus of the small subunit of TFIIE regulates the transition from transcription initiation to elongation by RNA polymerase II

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 2914-2926

  Watanabe, Tomomichi ^a,d   Hayashi, Kazuhiro ^a   Tanaka, Aki ^a   Furumoto, Tadashi ^a   Hanaoka, Fumio ^a,b,c   Ohkuma, Yoshiaki ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

^d TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY LIMITED   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE ACTIVATING KINASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN P44; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TF2E; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM GROUP D PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME BINDING; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HELA CELLS; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHOSPHORYLATION; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE II; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, TFII; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0037384907     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.8.2914-2926.2003     Document Type: Article

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