Phosphorylation of rat mitochondrial transcription termination factor (mTERF) is required for transcription termination but not for binding to DNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2059-2068

  Prieto Martín, Ascensión ^a   Montoya, Julio ^a   Martínez Azorín, Francisco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION FACTOR; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BASIC LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MTERF PROTEIN, HUMAN; PHOSPHATASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MAMMAL CELL; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; LIVER MITOCHONDRION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHOSPHORYLATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

MAMMALIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA, LIVER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 2342481724     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh528     Document Type: Article

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