A whole genome analysis of 5′ regulatory regions of human genes for putative cis-acting modulators of nucleosome positioning

Gene

Volumn 391, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 242-251

  Ganapathi, Mythily ^a,b   Singh, Gajinder Pal ^b   Sandhu, Kuljeet Singh ^b   Brahmachari, Samir Kumar ^b   Brahmachari, Vani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Nucleosome exclusion; Nucleosome positioning; Poly(dA dT); TATA less genes; TGGA TGA repeats

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOME 16; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME 19; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DNA FLANKING REGION; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY DNA SEQUENCE; RESTRICTION SITE;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HISTONES; HUMANS; NUCLEOSOMES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TATA BOX;

EID: 33847672687     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.01.008     Document Type: Article

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