The Spt4-Spt5 complex: A multi-faceted regulator of transcription elongation

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1829, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 105-115

  Hartzog, Grant A ^a   Fu, Jianhua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

DSIF; NELF; P TEFb; Spt4; Spt5; Transcription elongation

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SPT4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SPT5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84872424651     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2012.08.007     Document Type: Review

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