Elongator complex: how many roles does it play?

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 331-336

  Svejstrup, Jesper Q ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HOLOENZYME; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; TRANSFER RNA;

ACETYLATION; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DNA MODIFICATION; DYSAUTONOMIA; EXOCYTOSIS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NERVE GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; HISTONES; HOLOENZYMES; HUMANS; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

EID: 34250305505     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2007.04.005     Document Type: Review

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