The amino terminal extension of mammalian mitochondrial RNA polymerase ensures promoter specific transcription initiation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3638-3647

  Posse, Viktor ^a   Hoberg, Emily ^a   Dierckx, Anke ^b   Shahzad, Saba ^c   Koolmeister, Camilla ^c   Larsson, Nils Göran ^c,d   Wilhelmsson, L Marcus ^b   Hällberg, B Martin ^c,e,f   Gustafsson, Claes M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGY OF AGEING   (Germany)

^e DESY   (Germany)

^f EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HUMANS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICE; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84899015120     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1397     Document Type: Article

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