Regulating the regulators: The pervasive effects of Pol II pausing on stimulus-responsive gene networks

Genes and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 933-944

  Gilchrist, Daniel A ^a   Fromm, George ^a   dos Santos, Gilberto ^a,c   Pham, Linh N ^a   Mcdaniel, Ivy E ^a,d   Burkholder, Adam ^b   Fargo, David C ^b   Adelman, Karen ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of California Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Gene networks; Polymerase pausing; Transcription elongation

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; JANUS KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NEGATIVE ELONGATION FACTOR; RNA POLYMERASE II; STAT PROTEIN; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL RENEWAL; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

METAZOA; MURINAE;

EID: 84860504575     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.187781.112     Document Type: Article

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