Kuang-Lei Tsai1, Chieri Tomomori-Sato2, Shigeo Sato2

  • 1Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.

Cell
|June 3, 2014
PubMed
まとめ

研究者は,メディエーター複合体の構造とサブユニットの組織をマッピングし,遺伝子発現の調節に不可欠な大規模な再編成を明らかにしました. この画期的な発見は,真核生物間の転写開始のメカニズムを明らかにしている.

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