Temporal ChIP-on-Chip of RNA-Polymerase-II to detect novel gene activation events during photoreceptor maturation

Molecular Vision

Volumn 16, Issue , 2010, Pages 252-271

  Tummala, Padmaja ^a   Mali, Raghuveer S ^a   Guzman, Eduardo ^a   Zhang, Xiao ^a   Mitton, Kenneth P ^a  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 ACYLGLYCEROPHOSPHOCHOLINE ACYLTRANSFERASE; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLATION FACTOR 4; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLATION FACTOR 4D; CARRIER PROTEIN; COILED COIL DOMAIN CONTAINING 126 PROTEIN; EYE PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; RHODOPSIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 25 MEMBER 33; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; FIZ1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MESSENGER RNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHOTORECEPTOR; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA NEUROEPITHELIAL LAYER; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA BINDING; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHROMOSOME; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHODOPSIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

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