Secondary enhancers synergise with primary enhancers to guarantee fine-tuned muscle gene expression

Developmental Biology

Volumn 337, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 16-28

  Guerrero, Lucia ^a   Marco Ferreres, Raquel ^a   Serrano, Antonio L ^b   Arredondo, Juan J ^a   Cervera, Margarita ^a  

^a Facultad de Medicina   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fine tuning gene transcription control; Global transcription regulation; Mouse fast, slow and cardiac Troponin I genes; Paired enhancers; Secondary enhancers

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN I;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPORATION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMICS; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 70450221669     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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