Core promoter elements and TAFs contribute to the diversity of transcriptional activation in vertebrates

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 7350-7362

  Chen, Zheng ^a,b   Manley, James L ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53; RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTOR; TATA BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTOR 9; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENHANCER REGION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CHICKENS; CHROMATIN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENES, REPORTER; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MUTATION; PHOSPHORIC ACID ESTERS; PLASMIDS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA; TATA-BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIID; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; SIMIAE; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141752776     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.20.7350-7362.2003     Document Type: Article

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