Highly efficient chromatin transcription induced by superhelically curved DNA segments: The underlying mechanism revealed by a yeast system

Biochemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2351-2358

  Tanase, Jun Ichi ^a   Morohashi, Nobuyuki ^b   Fujita, Masashi ^b   Nishikawa, Jun Ichi ^a   Shimizu, Mitsuhiro ^b   Ohyama, Takashi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MEISEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA SEGMENTS; DNA STRUCTURE; HIGH MOBILITY; MAMMALIAN CELLS; NUCLEOSOME FORMATION; NUCLEOSOME SLIDING; NUCLEOSOMES; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATIONS; UNDERLYING MECHANISM; YEAST CELL; YEAST SYSTEMS;

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; GENES; MAMMALS; TRANSCRIPTION; YEAST;

DNA;

DNA; HISTONE;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST CELL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOSOMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; THYMIDINE KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA; RUMEX;

EID: 77949512086     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi901950w     Document Type: Article

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