The recruitment of the saccharomyces cerevisiae paf1 complex to active genes requires a domain of rtf1 that directly interacts with the spt4-spt5 complex

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 3259-3273

  Mayekar, Manasi K ^a,b   Gardner, Richard G ^c   Arndta, Karen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; RTF1 PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PAF1 COMPLEX; SPT4 SPT5 COMPLEX; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE MUTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TATA-BOX BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

EID: 84881276041     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00270-13     Document Type: Article

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