Structure of the Mediator Head module bound to the carboxy-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 44, 2012, Pages 17931-17935

  Robinson, Philip J J ^a   Bushnell, David A ^a   Trnka, Michael J ^b   Burlingame, Alma L ^b   Kornberg, Roger D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross linking; Transcriptional initiation; X ray crystallography; Yeast

Indexed keywords

HEAD MODULE PROTEIN; MEDIATOR COMPLEX; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA POLYMERASE II; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84868094446     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1215241109     Document Type: Article

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