Mediator phosphorylation prevents stress response transcription during non-stress conditions

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 53, 2012, Pages 44017-44026

  Miller, Christian ^a   Matic, Ivan ^b   Maier, Kerstin C ^a   Schwalb, Björn ^a   Roether, Susanne ^a   Strässer, Katja ^a   Tresch, Achim ^a   Mann, Matthias ^b   Cramer, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFINITY PURIFICATION; COACTIVATORS; END POINTS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EXTERNAL STIMULUS; HIGH SALT CONCENTRATION; MULTI-PROTEIN COMPLEX; PROTEIN-CODING GENES; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGNALING PATHWAYS; STRESS RESPONSE; STRESS-INDUCED; TRANSCRIPTOME ANALYSIS; YEAST SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

GENES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA; YEAST;

TRANSCRIPTION;

MEDIATOR COMPLEX; PROTEIN MED15; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; ISOTOPE LABELING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SALT STRESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MEDIATOR COMPLEX; PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84871776789     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.430140     Document Type: Article

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