Core Structure of the Yeast Spt4-Spt5 Complex: A Conserved Module for Regulation of Transcription Elongation

Structure

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1649-1658

  Guo, Min ^a   Xu, Fei ^a   Yamada, Jena ^b   Egelhofer, Thea ^b   Gao, Yongxiang ^a   Hartzog, Grant A ^b   Teng, Maikun ^a   Niu, Liwen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACID; SPT4 SPT5 PROTEIN COMPLEX; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIPOLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 55249117324     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2008.08.013     Document Type: Article

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