Transcriptional activation in the context of repression mediated by archaeal histones

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 6777-6781

  Wilkinson, Steven P ^a,b   Ouhammouch, Mohamed ^a   Geiduschek, E Peter ^a  

^a SECTION OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United States)

^b Biomatrica   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Promoter complex; Ptr2; RNA polymerase; Upstream activating site

Indexed keywords

DNA; HETERODIMER; HISTONE; HOMODIMER; HYDROXYL RADICAL;

ARCHEAN; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DNA BINDING; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA PACKAGING; EUKARYOTE; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; GENES, ARCHAEAL; HISTONES; HYDROXYL RADICAL; KINETICS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; EUKARYOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS JANNASCHII;

EID: 77951070089     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002360107     Document Type: Article

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