Mammalian RNA polymerase II core promoters: Insights from genome-wide studies

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 424-436

  Sandelin, Albin ^a,b   Carninci, Piero ^b,c   Lenhard, Boris ^d   Ponjavic, Jasmina ^e   Hayashizaki, Yoshihide ^b,c   Hume, David A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c Japan Science and Technology Agency   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEOME; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CPG ISLANDS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 34249098071     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2026     Document Type: Review

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