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Identifiers | |||||||||
Symbol | TBP | ||||||||
Pfam | PF00352 | ||||||||
Pfam clan | CL0407 | ||||||||
InterPro | IPR000814 | ||||||||
PROSITE | PDOC00303 | ||||||||
SCOP2 | 1tbp / SCOPe / SUPFAM | ||||||||
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The TATA-binding protein (TBP) is a general transcription factor that binds to a DNA sequence called the TATA box. This DNA sequence is found about 30 base pairs upstream of the transcription start site in some eukaryotic gene promoters.[5]