Transcription and recombination factories: Common features?

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 318-324

  Lucas, Joseph S ^a   Bossen, Claudia ^a   Murre, Cornelis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHESIN; CYTOKINE; DNA; IKAROS TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR DELTA CHAIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR YY1; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CHROMATID; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; DNA CROSS LINKING; DNA REPLICATION; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; ROSETTE FORMATION; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79957855283     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: 18790410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2010.11.007     Document Type: Review

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