Accessorizing the human mitochondrial transcription machinery

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 283-291

  Bestwick, Megan L ^a   Shadel, Gerald S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Human mitochondria; RNA polymerase; Transcription factor; Transcription factor A, mitochondrial; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE RICH PENTATRICOPEPTIDE REPEAT CONTAINING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR A; PROTEIN MRPL12; PROTEIN MTERF; PROTEIN POLRMT; PROTEIN TFB2M; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TEMPLATE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84878147112     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2013.03.006     Document Type: Review

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