Transcriptionally active TFIIH of the early-diverged eukaryote Trypanosoma brucei harbors two novel core subunits but not a cyclin-activating kinase complex

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3811-3820

  Lee, Ju Huck ^a   Jung, Hyun Suk ^b   Günzl, Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPLICED LEADER RNA; THROMBOSPONDIN 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIH; XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM GROUP D PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VIABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SPLICED LEADER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIH; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EUKARYOTA; METAZOA; PROTISTA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 67649870625     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp236     Document Type: Article

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