Transcription: A Mechanism for Short-Term Memory

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Ptashne, Mark ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GALACTOSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCOSE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 37449004197     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.11.017     Document Type: Short Survey

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