Mechanisms of Gene Activation

15 December 1995

journal article
perspectives
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 270 (5243) , 1773
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.270.5243.1773

Abstract

S. Buratowski discusses two papers in this issue of Science (Sauer et al., pp. 1783 and 1825) that show that the basal transcription factor complex TFIID is a target of transcriptional activators.

Keywords

GENE ACTIVATION
TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR
BURATOWSKI DISCUSSES
TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATORS
TWO PAPERS
FACTOR COMPLEX
BASAL TRANSCRIPTION
COMPLEX TFIID
SCIENCE

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