Differential patterns of intronic and exonic DNA regions with respect to RNA polymerase II occupancy, nucleosome density and H3K36me3 marking in fission yeast

Genome Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Wilhelm, Brian T ^a,b   Marguerat, Samuel ^a   Aligianni, Sofia ^a,c   Codlin, Sandra ^a   Watt, Stephen ^a,d   Bähler, Jürg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^d CANCER RESEARCH UK CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; LYSINE; RNA POLYMERASE II; FUNGAL DNA; HISTONE; MESSENGER RNA; RNA PRECURSOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SPLICING; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; OPEN READING FRAME; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; START CODON; STOP CODON; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; POLYADENYLATION; RNA SPLICING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA, FUNGAL; EXONS; HISTONES; INTRONS; NUCLEOSOMES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYADENYLATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 80052033449     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2011-12-8-r82     Document Type: Article

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