Chromatin structure analyses identify miRNA promoters

Genes and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 3172-3183

  Ozsolak, Fatih ^a,b   Poling, Laura L ^a,b   Wang, Zhengxin ^c   Liu, Hui ^d   Liu, X Shirley ^e,f   Roeder, Robert G ^g   Zhang, Xinmin ^d   Song, Jun S ^h   Fisher, David E ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d Roche NimbleGen Inc   (United States)

^e DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; MicroRNA; Promoter; Transcription

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MICRORNA; ONCOPROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MELANOMA CELL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MICRORNAS; NUCLEOSOMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 56549129538     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1706508     Document Type: Article

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