Transcription goes digital

EMBO Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 313-321

  Lionnet, Timothée ^a   Singer, Robert H ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

BACTERIOPHAGE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DNA PROBE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; LUMINESCENCE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84859424298     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2012.31     Document Type: Review

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