TATA-binding protein mutants that are lethal in the absence of the Nhp6 high-mobility-group protein

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 6419-6429

  Eriksson, Peter ^a,b   Biswas, Debabrata ^a   Yu, Yaxin ^a   Stewart, James M ^a   Stillman, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZAURACIL; CHICKEN OVALBUMIN UPSTREAM PROMOTER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CURVED DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B PROTEIN; PROTEIN NHP6; PROTEIN SNR6; PROTEIN SPT16 POB3; PROTEIN SPT3; RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TATA-BOX BINDING PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

FUNGI; GALLUS GALLUS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 3042753093     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.14.6419-6429.2004     Document Type: Article

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