The Scientist Staff | Dec 9, 1990 | 1 min read
S. Hahn, S. Buratowski, P.A. Sharp, L. Guarente, "Isolation of the gene encoding the yeast TATA binding protein TFIID: a gene identical to the SPT15 suppressor of Ty element insertions," Cell, 58, 1173-81, 22 September 1989. Steven Hahn (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle): "TFIID is one of the essential components in the machinery necessary to initiate transcription by RNA polymerase II. For eight years after the discovery of TFIID in mammals, little was known about it because of