Promoter-proximal stalling results from the inability to recruit transcription factor IIH to the transcription complex and is a regulated event.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on August 18, 1998

Authors

K P Kumar1, S Akoulitchev, D Reinberg

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1: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Division of Nucleic Acid Enzymology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, 663 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854-5635, USA.

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