Message in a nucleus: signaling to the transcriptional machinery

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 397-403

  Carrera, Inés ^a   Treisman, Jessica E ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA POLYMERASE II; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 56049084903     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2008.07.007     Document Type: Review

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