Architecture of the RNA polymerase II preinitiation complex and mechanism of ATP-dependent promoter opening

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 788-796

  Grünberg, Sebastian ^a   Warfield, Linda ^a   Hahn, Steven ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ARGININE; CYSTEINE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; LYSINE; PROLINE; RECA PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; SERINE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DIMERIZATION; DNA DENATURATION; DNA HELIX; GROWTH RATE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BINDING SITES; DIMERIZATION; DNA HELICASES; DNA, FUNGAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, TFII;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84864662191     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2334     Document Type: Article

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