Live imaging of nascent RNA dynamics reveals distinct types of transcriptional pulse regulation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 7350-7355

  Muramoto, Tetsuya ^a,b   Cannon, Danielle ^a,c   Gierliński, Marek ^a   Corrigan, Adam ^a,c   Barton, Geoffrey J ^a   Chubb, Jonathan R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

RNA turnover; Stochastic gene expression; Transcriptional bursting

Indexed keywords

RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DICTYOSTELIUM; ENZYME KINETICS; EUKARYOTE; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; RNA SYNTHESIS; STEADY STATE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALGORITHMS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DICTYOSTELIUM; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; KINETICS; MODELS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA STABILITY; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

DICTYOSTELIUM; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84860794159     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1117603109     Document Type: Article

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