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Cloning and structure of a yeast gene encoding a general transcription initiation factor TFIID that binds to the TATA box

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The TATA sequence-binding factor TFIID plays a central role both in promoter activation by RNA polymerase II and other common initiation factors, and in promoter regulation by gene-specific factors. The sequence of yeast TFIID, which seems to be encoded by a single gene, contains interesting structural motifs that are possibly involved in these functions, and is similar to sequences of bacterial sigma factors.

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  1. C. Kathy Wang and P. Anthony Weil: Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA

  2. C. Kathy Wang: Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA

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    Masami Horikoshi, C. Kathy Wang, Hiroshi Fujii, James A. Cromlish, P. Anthony Weil & Robert G. Roeder

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Horikoshi, M., Wang, C., Fujii, H. et al. Cloning and structure of a yeast gene encoding a general transcription initiation factor TFIID that binds to the TATA box. Nature 341, 299–303 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1038/341299a0

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