Central forkhead domain of human TFIIEβ plays a primary role in binding double-stranded DNA at transcription initiation

Genes to Cells

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 395-405

  Tanaka, Aki ^a,b   Watanabe, Tomomichi ^b   Iida, Yukari ^a   Hanaoka, Fumio ^b,c   Ohkuma, Yoshiaki ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; LYSINE; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIEBETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROPHOBICITY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DNA; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOSPHORYLATION; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, TFII; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ADENOVIRIDAE;

EID: 61349120859     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: 13652443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2008.01278.x     Document Type: Article

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