The FACT Complex Travels with Elongating RNA Polymerase II and is Important for the Fidelity of Transcriptional Initiation In Vivo

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 8323-8333

  Mason, Paul B ^a   Struhl, Kevin ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR; FACT COMPLEX; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SPT16; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC CODE; IN VIVO STUDY; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TATA-BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTORS; TATA-BOX BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, TFII; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0242579933     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.22.8323-8333.2003     Document Type: Article

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