The small hSpt4 subunit of the human transcription elongation factor DSIF is a Zn-finger protein with α/β type topology

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 370, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 414-418

  Wenzel, Sabine ^a   Schweimer, Kristian ^a   Rösch, Paul ^a   Wöhrl, Birgitta M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

CD; DSIF; HIV; hSpt4; NMR; Transcription elongation factor; Zn finger protein

Indexed keywords

5,6 DICHLOROBENZIMIDAZOLE RIBOSIDE; CYSTEINE; ELONGATION FACTOR; METAL; PROTEIN DSIF; PROTEIN NELF; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HSPT4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HSPT5; VIRUS DNA;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; EUKARYOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS; ZINC; ZINC FINGERS;

EUKARYOTA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 42749094167     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.03.080     Document Type: Article

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