Analyzing RNA polymerase III by electron cryomicroscopy

RNA Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Fernández Tornero, Carlos ^a   Böttcher, Bettina ^b   Rashid, Umar Jan ^c   Müller, Christoph W ^c  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electron cryomicroscopy; Maf1; RNA polymerase III; TFIIIB; Transcription elongation; Transcription initiation; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CARCINOMA; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME REPRESSION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BINDING SITES; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RNA POLYMERASE III; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 80052808346     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.8.5.16021     Document Type: Review

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