Transcriptional control: Tat cofactors and transcriptional elongation.
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
HIV-1 gene expression requires the transactivator Tat, which stimulates viral transcript elongation. Recent results show that two cellular cyclin-dependent kinases, which phosphorylate the carboxy-terminal domain of the RNA polymerase II large subunit, contact Tat and contribute to the control of transcriptional elongation.
PMID: 9651670 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]