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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Transcription Factors > Transcriptional Elongation Factors > Positive Transcriptional Elongation Factor B
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins > Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases > Positive Transcriptional Elongation Factor B
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Peptides > Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins > Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases > Positive Transcriptional Elongation Factor B
... > Enzymes and Coenzymes > Enzymes > Transferases > Phosphotransferases > Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor) > Protein Kinases > Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases > Positive Transcriptional Elongation Factor B

Preferred term

Positive Transcriptional Elongation Factor B  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Positive Transcription Elongation Factor B
  • P-TEFb
  • tat Associated Kinase
  • tat-Associated Kinase

Scope note

  • A transcriptional elongation factor complex that is comprised of a heterodimer of CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE 9 and one of several CYCLINS including TYPE T CYCLINS and cyclin K. It functions by phosphorylating the carboxy-terminal domain of RNA POLYMERASE II.

History note

  • 2004; use POSITIVE TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTOR B (NM) 1996-2003

In other languages

  • P-TEFb

    Finnish

  • positive transcriptional elongation factor B

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D042925

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