Computer modeling of promoter organization as a tool to study transcriptional coregulation

FASEB Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1228-1237

  Werner, Thomas ^a,b   Fessele, Sabine ^d   Maier, Holge ^a   Nelson, Peter J ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Genomatix GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Functional context; Module; Promoter modeling

Indexed keywords

DNA; RANTES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; BINDING SITE; COMPUTER MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLOMERULAR MESANGIUM; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MONOCYTES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RANTES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037785111     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.02-0955rev     Document Type: Review

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