Life on a planet of its own: Regulation of RNA polymerase I transcription in the nucleolus

Genes and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1691-1702

  Grummt, Ingrid ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHICKEN OVALBUMIN UPSTREAM PROMOTER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; HOLOENZYME; INITIATION FACTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; POL PROTEIN; PROTEIN P53; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; S6 KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEOLUS; DNA REPAIR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE I; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0038506040     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1098503R     Document Type: Review

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