Complex exon-intron marking by histone modifications is not determined solely by nucleosome distribution

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Dhami, Pawandeep ^a,d   Saffrey, Peter ^b   Bruce, Alexander W ^a,e   Dillon, Shane C ^a,f   Chiang, Kelly ^b   Bonhoure, Nicolas ^b   Koch, Christoph M ^a   Bye, Jackie ^a   James, Keith ^a   Foad, Nicola S ^c   Ellis, Peter ^a   Watkins, Nicholas A ^c   Ouwehand, Willem H ^a,c   Langford, Cordelia ^a   Andrews, Robert M ^a   Dunham, Ian ^a,g   Vetrie, David ^a,b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^f TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^g WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; NUCLEOSOME; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RNA SPLICING; SILENT GENE; CELL STRAIN K 562; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

EUKARYOTA;

EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; HUMANS; INTRONS; K562 CELLS; NUCLEOSOMES; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77957878986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012339     Document Type: Article

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