Evidence that RNA polymerase II and not TFIIB is responsible for the difference in transcription initiation patterns between Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 6495-6507

  Yang, Chen ^a   Ponticelli, Alfred S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIB;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIB; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84864952483     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks323     Document Type: Article

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