Synergy of human Pol II core promoter elements revealed by statistical sequence analysis

Bioinformatics

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1295-1300

  Gershenzon, Naum I ^a   Ioshikhes, Ilya P ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE ALPHA; TATA BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIB;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 17444371719     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti172     Document Type: Article

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