Proteolytic Instability and the Action of Nonclassical Transcriptional Activators

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 868-871

  Wang, Xin ^a   Muratani, Masafumi ^b   Tansey, William P ^c   Ptashne, Mark ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

RNA

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; MED2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; MEDIATOR COMPLEX; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BINDING SITES; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; MEDIATOR COMPLEX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 77953322730     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.03.029     Document Type: Article

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