Transcription elongation through a chromatin template

Biochimie

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 516-527

  Lavelle, Christophe ^a  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

Chromatin; DNA topology; Nucleosome; Topoisomerase; Transcription

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA SUPERCOILING; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CHROMATIN; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOSOMES; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE III; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 34247344995     PISSN: 03009084     EISSN: 61831638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2006.09.019     Document Type: Article

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