The role of enhancers as centres for general transcription factor recruitment

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 593-599

  Szutorisz, Henrietta ^a   Dillon, Niall ^a   Tora, László ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA FRAGMENT; GENERAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENOMIC DNA; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HOX PROTEIN; NAKED DNA; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; RNA POLYMERASE II; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA TEMPLATE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; ENZYME REGULATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 27544466462     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2005.08.006     Document Type: Article

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