From the beginning: The basal transcription machinery and onset of transcription in the early animal embryo

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 212-227

  Zurita, M ^a   Reynaud, E ^a   Aguilar Fuentes, J ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Animal embryo; Development; Transcription; Zygotic gene activation

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CTD KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN CTD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EMBRYO; BASAL CELL; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MEDIATOR; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA STABILITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 38549168531     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-007-7295-4     Document Type: Review

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