Bases estructurales de la activación de la transcripción

Yu Feng1, Yu Zhang1, Richard H Ebright2

  • 1Waksman Institute and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|June 11, 2016
PubMed
Resumen

Los activadores de transcripción de clase II, como TTHB099 (TAP), mejoran la transcripción génica mediante la estabilización de las interacciones de la ARN polimerasa (RNAP). Este estudio estructural revela cómo el TAP activa la iniciación de la transcripción a través de las interacciones proteína-ADN y proteína-proteína.

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