Domainal organization of the lower eukaryotic homologs of the yeast RNA polymerase II core subunit Rpb7 reflects functional conservation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 201-210

  Singh, Sunanda R ^a   Rekha, Nambudiry ^a   Pillai, Beena ^a,b   Singh, Vijender ^a   Naorem, Aruna ^a   Sampath, Vinaya ^a   Srinivasan, N ^a   Sadhale, Parag P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT; RNA POLYMERASE II; HYBRID PROTEIN; RPB7 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DIPLOIDY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPOROGENESIS; STRESS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; YEAST; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DICTYOSTELIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHANOCOCCUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DICTYOSTELIUM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; METHANOCOCCUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 1242297808     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh163     Document Type: Article

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