The eukaryotic transcriptional machinery: Complexities and mechanisms unforeseen

Nature Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1239-1244

  Roeder, Robert G ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; DISSOCIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME RECONSTITUTION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELA CELL; HOMEOSTASIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA SYNTHESIS; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0142137250     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm938     Document Type: Note

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