The transition from transcriptional initiation to elongation

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 130-136

  Wade, Joseph T ^a   Struhl, Kevin ^b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA POLYMERASE II;

CELL MATURATION; CHROMATIN; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; HUMANS; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 44349116852     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2007.12.008     Document Type: Review

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