Metazoan promoters: Emerging characteristics and insights into transcriptional regulation

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 233-245

  Lenhard, Boris ^a,b,c   Sandelin, Albin ^d   Carninci, Piero ^e  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC CLINICAL SCIENCES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; REPETITIVE DNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CATALYSIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MAMMALS; NUCLEOSOMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RETROELEMENTS; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

HARNESS; METAZOA;

EID: 84858440747     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3163     Document Type: Review

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