The Mediator complex and transcription elongation

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1829, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 69-75

  Conaway, Ronald C ^a,b   Conaway, Joan Weliky ^a,b  

^a STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ELL; Elongation; Mediator; P TEFb; RNA polymerase II; Transcription

Indexed keywords

MEDIATOR COMPLEX; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MEDIATOR COMPLEX; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA POLYMERASE II; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84872376792     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2012.08.017     Document Type: Review

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