A novel intermediate in transcription initiation by human mitochondrial RNA polymerase

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3884-3893

  Morozov, Yaroslav I ^a   Agaronyan, Karen ^a   Cheung, Alan C M ^b,c   Anikin, Michael ^a   Cramer, Patrick ^b   Temiakov, Dmitry ^a  

^a UMDNJ School of Osteopathic Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR A; PROTEIN TFB2M; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84899000262     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1356     Document Type: Article

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