Chromatin and transcription - How transcription factors battle with a repressive chromatin environment

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 251, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 9-18

  Gregory, Philip D ^a   Hörz, Wolfram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromatin remodeling; GCN5; Histone acetylation; Nucleosome; Position effect; RPD3; Silencing; SWI SNF; Telomere; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SILENCER GENE; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

EID: 0032518443     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1998.2510009.x     Document Type: Review

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