Coupling polymerase pausing and chromatin landscapes for precise regulation of transcription

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1819, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 700-706

  Gilchrist, Daniel A ^a   Adelman, Karen ^a  

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

Author keywords

Chromatin; Nucleosome; Pausing; Transcription

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE II;

CHROMATIN; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC LINKAGE; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84861855149     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2012.02.015     Document Type: Review

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