Transcription initiation complex structures elucidate DNA opening

Nature

Volumn 533, Issue , 2016, Pages 353-358

  Plaschka, C ^a   Hantsche, M ^a   Dienemann, C ^a   Burzinski, C ^a   Plitzko, J ^b   Cramer, P ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR II;

CHEMICAL BINDING; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; PROTEIN; RNA; YEAST;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TEMPLATE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; YEAST; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EUKARYOTA;

ALLOSTERIC SITE; BASE SEQUENCE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DNA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TATA-BOX BINDING PROTEIN; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, TFII; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84970976578     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature17990     Document Type: Article

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