Genome-wide chromatin occupancy analysis reveals a role for ASH2 in transcriptional pausing

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4628-4639

  Pérez Lluch, Sílvia ^a   Blanco, Enrique ^a   Carbonell, Albert ^a   Raha, Debasish ^b   Snyder, Michael ^b,c   Serras, Florenci ^a   Corominas, Montserrat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; PROTEIN ASH2; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FORELIMB; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME WIDE CHROMATIN OCCUPANCY ANALYSIS; HISTONE METHYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENOME, INSECT; HISTONES; LYSINE; METHYLATION; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 79959394424     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1322     Document Type: Article

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