Acknowledgments This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program (2013CB910200 and 2014CB910700), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31222017), and the Ministry of Education of PRC (NCET-11-0874). We thank Xuefeng Zhu (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) for providing the TP 161 strain for expression of S. pombe Mediator.
The Mediator complex plays an essential role in the regulation of eukaryotic transcription. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae core Mediator comprises 21 subunits, which are organized into Head, Middle and Tail modules. Pre...
Mediator is a large and structurally dynamic protein complex that is globally required for eukaryotic transcription by RNA polymerase II. In a recent paper published in Cell Research, Wang et al. report for the first ...
This work was supported by grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology (2011CB965100, 2011DFA30480, 2010CB944900, 2010CB945000, and 2011CBA01100), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (91219305, 31071306, 31101061, 31210103905, 90919028, 31000378, 31171432, and 30971451), the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (11ZR1438500 and 11XD1405300), and the Ministry of Education (IRT1168 and 20110072110039). The work was also supported by the "Chen Guang" project, the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Education Development Foundation (12CG19) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
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