RNA sequences that work as transcriptional activating regions

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1565-1570

  Saha, Shamol ^b,c   Ansari, Aseem Z ^b,d   Jarell, Kevin A ^a   Ptashne, Mark ^b,e  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PEPTIDE; RNA; URACIL;

CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; RNA ISOLATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; YEAST CELL;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0037337009     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg227     Document Type: Review

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