Spt4/5 stimulates transcription elongation through the RNA polymerase clamp coiled-coil motif

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4040-4051

  Hirtreiter, Angela ^a   Damsma, Gerke E ^b   Cheung, Alan C M ^b   Klose, Daniel ^a   Grohmann, Dina ^a   Vojnic, Erika ^b   Martin, Andrew C R ^a   Cramer, Patrick ^b   Werner, Finn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYDROPHOBICITY; METABOLISM; METHANOCOCCUS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ARCHAEA; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS JANNASCHII;

ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; SPT5 TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; HYDROPHOBICITY; METHANOCOCCUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

EID: 77955059733     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq135     Document Type: Article

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