New insights into the function of transcription factor TFIID from recent structural studies

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 219-224

  Papai, Gabor ^a   Weil, P Anthony ^b   Schultz, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IID;

BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN; COMPLEX FORMATION; DROSOPHILA; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIID;

EID: 79953162966     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2011.01.009     Document Type: Review

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