Zooming in on Transcription Preinitiation

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 428, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2581-2591

  Gupta, Kapil ^a,b   Sari Ak, Duygu ^a,b   Haffke, Matthias ^c   Trowitzsch, Simon ^d   Berger, Imre ^a,b,e  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abbreviations GTF general transcription factors; Brf2 TFIIB related factor 2; CLMS crosslinking mass spectrometry; cryo EM cryo electron microscopy; CTD C terminal domain; HAT histone acetyltransferase; HFD histone fold domain; ITC initially transcribing complex; NIP nuclear import particle; PIC preinitiation complex; RNA pol II RNA polymerase II; SAGA Spt Ada Gcn5 Acetyl transferase; TAFs TBP associated factors; TBP TATA box binding protein

Indexed keywords

GENERAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; COREPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IID;

CYTOPLASM; CYTOSOL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW; YEAST; CELL NUCLEUS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

CELL NUCLEUS; CO-REPRESSOR PROTEINS; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84963971192     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2016.04.003     Document Type: Review

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