Nucleosome Organization Affects the Sensitivity of Gene Expression to Promoter Mutations

Molecular Cell

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 362-368

  Hornung, Gil ^a   Oren, Moshe ^a   Barkai, Naama ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; YEAST;

BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, FUNGAL; MUTATION; NUCLEOSOMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; YEASTS;

EID: 84860710346     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2012.02.019     Document Type: Article

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