More pieces to the puzzle: Recent structural insights into class II transcription initiation

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 91-97

  Kandiah, Eaazhisai ^a,b   Trowitzsch, Simon ^a,b   Gupta, Kapil ^a,b   Haffke, Matthias ^a,b   Berger, Imre ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDIATOR COMPLEX; RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TATA BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTOR; TATA BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIF; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA; PREINITIATION COMPLEX; GENERAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA TEMPLATE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; YEAST; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MEDIATOR COMPLEX; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, GENERAL; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84892545792     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2013.12.005     Document Type: Review

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