Transcription factories: Gene expression in unions?

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 457-466

  Sutherland, Heidi ^a   Bickmore, Wendy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; TRANSFER RNA;

BINDING SITE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORY MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; GENOME; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENOME; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 67649766870     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2592     Document Type: Review

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