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Transcription Factor TFIID

"Transcription Factor TFIID" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

The major sequence-specific DNA-binding component involved in the activation of transcription of RNA POLYMERASE II. It was originally described as a complex of TATA-BOX BINDING PROTEIN and TATA-BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTORS. It is now know that TATA BOX BINDING PROTEIN-LIKE PROTEINS may take the place of TATA-box binding protein in the complex.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Transcription Factor TFIID" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Transcription Factor TFIID" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 77 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 1995
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.