Architecture of the RNA polymerase II-Mediator core initiation complex

Nature

Volumn 518, Issue 7539, 2015, Pages 376-380

  Plaschka, C ^a   Lariviere L ^b   Wenzeck, L ^b   Seizl, M ^b   Hemann, M ^b   Tegunov, D ^c   Petrotchenko, E V ^d   Borchers, C H ^d   Baumeister, W ^c   Herzog, F ^b   Villa, E ^c,e   Cramer, P ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDIATOR COMPLEX; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIH; DNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RPB4 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; RPB7 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIB;

CHEMICAL BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; RNA; YEAST;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ALLOSTERISM; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

RUMEX; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; BINDING SITES; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MEDIATOR COMPLEX; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIH; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84923358406     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14229     Document Type: Article

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