Phosphorylation induces sequence-specific conformational switches in the RNA polymerase II C-terminal domain

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Gibbs, Eric B ^a   Lu, Feiyue ^a,b   Portz, Bede ^a   Fisher, Michael J ^a   Medellin, Brenda P ^c   Laremore, Tatiana N ^b   Zhang, Yan Jessie ^c   Gilmour, David S ^a   Showalter, Scott A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATASE; PROLINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; SERINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; SSU72 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

CHEMICAL REACTION; CHROMOSOME; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; INDUCED RESPONSE; MAMMAL; PHOSPHATASE; RNA; YEAST;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; ISOMERIZATION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROLINE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASES; RNA POLYMERASE II; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 85019201983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15233     Document Type: Article

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