Transcriptional interference and gene orientation in yeast: Noncoding RNA connections

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 75, Issue , 2010, Pages 299-311

  Gullerova, M ^a   Proudfoot, N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHESIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GAL10 PROTEIN; GAL7 PROTEIN; IME4 PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; SER3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ORIENTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; BUDDING YEAST; FISSION YEAST; GAL GENE; GENE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PROMOTER REGION;

GENES, FUNGAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 80052404590     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2010.75.048     Document Type: Article

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