A sigmoidal transcriptional response: Cooperativity, synergy and dosage effects

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 149-170

  Veitia, Reiner A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b Pavillon Baudelocque ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Additivity; Cooperativity; Dominance; Dosage effects; Enhanceosome; Enhancer; Haploinsufficiency; Nonlinear; Promoter; Recessivity; Sigmoid; Transcription; Transcriptional synergy

Indexed keywords

DNA;

DNA BINDING; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAPLOIDY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SIGMOIDEA;

EID: 0037325058     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1464793102006036     Document Type: Review

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