A TFIIH-associated mediator head is a basal factor of small nuclear spliced leader RNA gene transcription in early-diverged trypanosomes

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 5502-5513

  Lee, Ju Huck ^a   Cai, Gang ^b   Panigrahi, Aswini K ^c   Dunham Ems, Star ^a   Nguyen, Tu N ^a   Radolf, Justin D ^a   Asturias, Francisco J ^b   Günzl, Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA POLYMERASE II; SPLICED LEADER RNA; TFIIH ASSOCIATED PROTEIN COMPLEX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, SPLICED LEADER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIH; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EUKARYOTA; KINETOPLASTIDA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 78649735944     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00966-10     Document Type: Article

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