The Increase in the number of subunits in eukaryotic RNA polymerase III relative to RNA polymerase II Is due to the permanent recruitment of general transcription factors

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1035-1043

  Carter, Robert ^a,b   Drouin, Guy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eukaryotic; RNA polymerase; Subunits; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

DIMER; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA POLYMERASE III; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, TFII;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 77951608945     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msp316     Document Type: Article

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