Blockers and barriers to transcription: Competing activities?

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 299-304

  Oki, Masaya ^a   Kamakaka, Rohinton T ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

CELL NUCLEUS; EUKARYOTE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; MODELS, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036591879     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(02)00327-7     Document Type: Review

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