The Mediator complex in thyroid hormone receptor action

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects

Volumn 1830, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3867-3875

  Fondell, Joseph D ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Coactivator; Nuclear receptor; Phosphorylation; Thyroid hormone receptor; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 8; MEDIATOR COMPLEX; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR; THYROTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT;

BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOMAL LOOPING; CHROMOSOMES AND CHROMOSOMAL PHENOMENA; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MEDIATOR COMPLEX; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, THYROID HORMONE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

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EID: 84877575200     PISSN: 03044165     EISSN: 18728006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2012.02.012     Document Type: Review

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