Four histone variants mark the boundaries of polycistronic transcription units in Trypanosoma brucei

Genes and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1063-1076

  Siegel, T Nicolai ^a   Hekstra, Doeke R ^a   Kemp, Louise E ^a   Figueiredo, Luisa M ^a   Lowell, Joanna E ^a   Fenyo, David ^a   Wang, Xuning ^a   Dewell, Scott ^a   Cross, George A M ^a,b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BIO Ventures for Global Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Genome wide ChIP seq; Histone modification; Histone variants; Transcription initiation; Transcription termination; Trypanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

GUANINE; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; RNA POLYMERASE II; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE ALPHA; HISTONE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME 10; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN VARIANT; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION;

EUKARYOTA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA POLYMERASE II; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HISTONES; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 65449138352     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1790409     Document Type: Article

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