Med8, Med18, and Med20 subunits of the Mediator head domain are interdependent upon each other for folding and complex formation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 49, 2009, Pages 20728-20733

  Adler, David ^a   Rahaman, Hamidur ^a   Wittung Stafshede, Pernilla ^a   Björklund, Stefan ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Assembly; Protein folding; Transcription

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN MED18; PROTEIN MED20; PROTEIN MED8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 73949115758     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907645106     Document Type: Article

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