Architecture of an RNA polymerase II transcription pre-initiation complex

Science

Volumn 342, Issue 6159, 2013, Pages

  Murakami, Kenji ^a   Elmlund, Hans ^a   Kalisman, Nir ^a   Bushnell, David A ^a   Adams, Christopher M ^a   Azubel, Maia ^a   Elmlund, Dominika ^a   Levi Kalisman, Yael ^a,b   Liu, Xin ^a,c   Gibbons, Brian J ^a   Levitt, Michael ^a   Kornberg, Roger D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELICASE; PROTEIN SSL2; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIF; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIIH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FUNGAL DNA; GENERAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN; RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATION; CROSS LINKING; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, GENERAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84884516365     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1238724     Document Type: Article

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