Rpb7 subunit of RNA polymerase II interacts with an RNA-binding protein involved in processing of transcripts

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 4696-4701

  Mitsuzawa, Hiroshi ^a   Kanda, Emi ^a,b   Ishihama, Akira ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b NIPPON INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL DIVISION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0344443712     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg688     Document Type: Article

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