Malleable machines take shape in eukaryotic transcriptional regulation

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 728-737

  Fuxreiter, Monika ^a   Tompa, Peter ^a   Simon, István ^a   Uversky, Vladimir N ^b   Hansen, Jeffrey C ^c   Asturias, Francisco J ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^d SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN; PROTEOME; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; EUKARYOTE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 56249101714     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.127     Document Type: Review

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