title: Get back TFIIF, don't let me Gdown1.
abstract: In this issue of Molecular Cell, papers by the Price and Roeder labs reveal how the Gdown1 protein antagonizes the general transcription factor TFIIF during RNAPII initiation and elongation and how the Mediator complex intervenes in this molecular tug-of-war to activate RNAPII.
authors.affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA. joaquin.espinosa@colorado.edu
authors.forename: Joaquín M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Espinosa