Architecture of TFIIIC and its role in RNA polymerase III pre-initiation complex assembly

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Male, Gary ^a   Von Appen, Alexander ^a   Glatt, Sebastian ^a   Taylor, Nicholas M I ^a,b   Cristovao, Michele ^a   Groetsch, Helga ^a   Beck, Martin ^a   Müller, Christoph W ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIIC; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR III; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIIC;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EUKARYOTA;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; RNA POLYMERASE III; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, TFIII;

EID: 84931275345     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8387     Document Type: Article

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