A universal nomenclature for subunits of the RNA polymerase III transcription initiation factor TFIIIB

  1. Ian M. Willis1
  1. Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA

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At the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting on Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription held last summer, Làszlò Tora initiated a discussion about the increasingly bewildering nomenclature used to refer to TATA-binding protein-associated factors (TAFs) in different organisms. This problem was most acute for TAFs involved in transcription by RNA polymerase (Pol) II because of the large (and growing) number of these proteins. However, …

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