トランスクリプション開始複合構造は,DNA開口を解明する

C Plaschka1, M Hantsche1, C Dienemann1

  • 1Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Molecular Biology, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.

Nature
|May 20, 2016
PubMed
まとめ

研究者は,酵母による転写開始複合体を視覚化するために,冷凍電子顕微鏡を用いた. 遺伝子の活性化時に DNAがどのように開かれ 閉じ込められるかを明らかにし 転写を開始するための統一モデルを提供しました

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