The distribution of active RNA polymerase II along the transcribed region is gene-specific and controlled by elongation factors

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 4651-4664

  Rodríguez Gil, Alfonso ^a,d   García Martínez, José ^b   Pelechano, Vicent ^b,e   de la Cruz Muñoz Centeno, María ^a   Geli, Vincent ^c   Pérez Ortín, José E ^b   Chávez, Sebastián ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

^e EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR; FUNGAL DNA; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; RPB9 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE; YEAST; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

GENES, FUNGAL; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

EID: 77955838693     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq215     Document Type: Article

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