Ssu72 phosphatase-dependent erasure of phospho-Ser7 marks on the RNA polymerase II C-terminal domain is essential for viability and transcription termination

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 8541-8551

  Zhang, David W ^a   Mosley, Amber L ^b,c   Ramisetty, Sreenivasa R ^b,d   Rodríguez Molina, Juan B ^a   Washburn, Michael P ^b   Ansari, Aseem Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d IDEXX LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C-TERMINAL DOMAINS; CELLULAR MACHINERY; HEPTAPEPTIDES; PREINITIATION COMPLEX; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

MACHINERY; PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION;

PHOSPHATASES;

PHOSPHATASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; SSU72 PHOSPHATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL DOMAIN; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; MRNA CLEAVAGE AND POLYADENYLATION FACTORS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SERINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84863229897     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.335687     Document Type: Article

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