TbISWI regulates multiple polymerase I (Pol I)-transcribed loci and is present at Pol II transcription boundaries in Trypanosoma brucei

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 964-976

  Stanne, Tara M ^a   Kushwaha, Manish ^a,b   Wand, Matthew ^b   Taylor, Jesse E ^c   Rudenko, Gloria ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; HISTONE; ISWI PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ENZYMOLOGY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ALLELES; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HISTONES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA POLYMERASE I; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 79960149832     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.05048-11     Document Type: Article

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