The β-globin locus control region (LCR) functions primarily by enhancing the transition from transcription initiation to elongation

Genes and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1009-1018

  Sawado, Tomoyuki ^a   Halow, Jessica ^a   Bender, M A ^a,b   Groudine, Mark ^a,b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

globin locus; Allele specific chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis; CTD phosphorylation; Locus control region; NF E2; Transcription elongation

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; SERINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NF E2;

ACETYLATION; ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ERYTHROLEUKEMIA CELL; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; KNOCKOUT GENE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METHYLATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ERYTHROID-SPECIFIC DNA-BINDING FACTORS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLOBINS; HISTONES; LEUKEMIA, ERYTHROBLASTIC, ACUTE; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NF-E2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NF-E2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR, P45 SUBUNIT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0037447160     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1072303     Document Type: Article

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