A structural perspective of CTD function

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1401-1415

  Meinhart, Anton ^a,b   Kamenski, Tomislav ^a   Hoeppner, Sabine ^a   Baumli, Sonja ^a   Cramer, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

C terminal repeat domain; Gene transcription; Kinase; Nuclear coupling; Phosphatase; RNA polymerase II

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 7; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 8; CYCLINE; ENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRIFLUOROETHANOL; WATER;

ALPHA HELIX; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOGENESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; ISOMERIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CARRIER PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 22344456265     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1318105     Document Type: Review

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