Interactions between subunits of the Mediator complex with gene-specific transcription factors

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 759-768

  Borggrefe, Tilman ^a   Yue, Xiaojing ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coactivator; Mediator complex; RNA polymerase; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN BETA; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 8; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MEDIATOR COMPLEX; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PROTEIN MED1; PROTEIN MED12; PROTEIN MED14; PROTEIN MED15; PROTEIN MED16; PROTEIN MED17; PROTEIN MED19; PROTEIN MED21; PROTEIN MED25; PROTEIN MED26; PROTEIN MED28; PROTEIN MED29; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADIPOGENESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHONDROGENESIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; EUKARYOTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE INTERACTION; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; YEAST;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 80455155050     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: 10963634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2011.07.022     Document Type: Review

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