Activator-dependent regulation of transcriptional pausing on nucleosomal templates

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1479-1490

  Brown, Steven A ^a   Imbalzano, Anthony N ^a   Kingston, Roheit E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

heat shock factor 1; hsp70; hSWI SNF complex; nucleosomes; transcriptional activators; Transcriptional pausing

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; HYBRID PROTEIN; PERMANGANATE POTASSIUM; RNA POLYMERASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA TEMPLATE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0029759928     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.12.1479     Document Type: Article

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