Gene-specific requirement of RNA polymerase II CTD phosphorylation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 995-1004

  Drogat, Julie ^a   Hermand, Damien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 12; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 9; FUNGAL RNA; PROTEIN CTK1; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN LSK1; PROTEIN S II; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; ENZYME GLYCOSYLATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84865197343     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08071.x     Document Type: Review

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