To cross or not to cross the nucleosome, that is the elongation question...

RNA Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 389-393

  Subtil Rodríguez, Alicia ^a   Reyes, Jose C ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Nucleosome; Remodeling; RNA polymerase; SWI SNF; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA; HISTONE; RNA POLYMERASE II;

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 79956140606     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.8.3.14334     Document Type: Review

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