Transcription through chromatin by RNA polymerase II: Histone displacement and exchange

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 618, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 116-129

  Kulaeva, Olga I ^a   Gaykalova, Daria A ^a   Studitsky, Vasily M ^a  

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

Author keywords

Chromatin; Elongation; Exchange; Histones; Nucleosome; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA; HISTONE; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA; HISTONES; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 34147168036     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2006.05.040     Document Type: Article

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