Structural visualization of key steps in human transcription initiation

Nature

Volumn 495, Issue 7442, 2013, Pages 481-486

  He, Yuan ^a   Fang, Jie ^b   Taatjes, Dylan J ^c   Nogales, Eva ^a,b,d  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2E; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2F; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOCHEMISTRY; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMINID; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; RNA; TRANSLOCATION; VISUALIZATION;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HELA CELL; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DNA; DNA HELICASES; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA-BOX BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, TFII; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84875613843     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11991     Document Type: Article

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