Separable functions of the fission yeast Spt5 carboxyl-terminal domain (CTD) in capping enzyme binding and transcription elongation overlap with those of the RNA polymerase II CTD

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2353-2364

  Schneider, Susanne ^a   Pei, Yi ^b   Shuman, Stewart ^a,b   Schwer, Beate ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SPT5; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; COLD SENSITIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE CLONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIMETABOLITES; CELL SHAPE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS; URACIL;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 77951993585     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00116-10     Document Type: Article

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