Functional consequences of bidirectional promoters

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 267-276

  Wei, Wu ^a   Pelechano, Vicent ^a   Järvelin, Aino I ^a   Steinmetz, Lars M ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE II; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; NUCLEOSOMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79959346319     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: 01689525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2011.04.002     Document Type: Review

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