Regulation of snRNA gene expression by the Drosophila melanogaster small nuclear RNA activating protein complex (DmSNAPc)

Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-26

  Hung, Ko Hsuan ^a   Stumph, William E ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

pre initiation complex; promoter sequences; protein DNA interaction; RNA polymerase specificity; site specific protein DNA photo cross linking; transcription initiation

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA ACTIVATING PROTEIN COMPLEX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA POLYMERASE III; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 78951491900     PISSN: 10409238     EISSN: 15497798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10409238.2010.518136     Document Type: Review

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