Mice and men: Their promoter properties

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 614-626

  Bajic, Vladimir B ^a,b   Sin, Lam Tan ^a,b   Christoffels, Alan ^c,d   Schönbach, Christian ^e   Lipovich, Leonard ^f   Yang, Liang ^g   Hofmann, Oliver ^b   Kruger, Adele ^b   Hide, Winston ^b   Kai, Chikatoshi ^e   Kawai, Jun ^e,h   Hume, David A ⁱ   Carninci, Piero ^e,h   Hayashizaki, Yoshihide ^e,h  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^f GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^g NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^h Japan Science and Technology Agency   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE; DINUCLEOTIDE; GLYCINE; THREONINE; CYTIDYLYL 3' 5' GUANOSINE; CYTIDYLYL-3'-5'-GUANOSINE; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CPG ISLAND; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE GENE; MAMMAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOUSE; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE;

HOMO SAPIENS; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33646472425     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020054     Document Type: Article

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