Collaborative competition mechanism for gene activation in vivo

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1623-1632

  Miller, Joanna A ^a   Widom, Jonathan ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LEXA PROTEIN; PROTEIN TET; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GCN4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FUNGAL GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CHROMATIN; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEOSOMES; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0037369952     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.5.1623-1632.2003     Document Type: Article

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