Crystal Structure of a Transcribing RNA Polymerase II Complex Reveals a Complete Transcription Bubble

Molecular Cell

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 258-269

  Barnes, Christopher O ^a   Calero, Monica ^a   Malik, Indranil ^b   Graham, Brian W ^c   Spahr, Henrik ^d   Lin, Guowu ^a   Cohen, Aina E ^e   Brown, Ian S ^a   Zhang, Qiangmin ^a   Pullara, Filippo ^a,f   Trakselis, Michael A ^c,g   Kaplan, Craig D ^b   Calero, Guillermo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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

^e SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^f RiMED Foundation   (Italy)

^g BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR II; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL RNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RPB2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; RPB5 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA TRANSLATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STATIC ELECTRICITY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, FUNGAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84937422854     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.06.034     Document Type: Article

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