Facts about FACT and transcript elongation through chromatin

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 139-146

  Belotserkovskaya, Rimma ^a   Reinberg, Danny ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

ChIP; Chromatin immunoprecipitation; DNA unwinding factor; DRB sensitivity inducing factor; DSIF; DUF; Facilitates chromatin transcription; FACT; Negative elongation factor; NELF; PolII; RNA polymerase II; SPT; SSRP1; Suppressor of Ty insertion

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CHAPERONE; DIMER; DNA; HISTONE; RNA POLYMERASE II;

CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; UBIQUITINATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HUMANS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEOSOMES; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

INSERTION SEQUENCES; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 1942471690     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2004.02.004     Document Type: Review

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