Unusual combinatorial involvement of poly-A/T tracts in organizing genes and chromatin in Dictyostelium

Genome Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1098-1106

  Chang, Gue Su ^a   Noegel, Angelika A ^b   Mavrich, Travis N ^a   Müller, Rolf ^b   Tomsho, Lynn ^a   Ward, Elissa ^a   Felder, Marius ^c   Jiang, Cizhong ^a,f   Eichinger, Ludwig ^d   Glöckner, Gernot ^e   Schuster, Stephan C ^a   Pugh, B Franklin ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^f TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYADENYLIC ACID; POLYTHYMIDYLIC ACID; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMATIN; DICTYOSTELIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TATA BOX;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENES; NUCLEOSOMES; PHYLOGENY; POLY A; POLY T; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

AMOEBOZOA; ANIMALIA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 84861887798     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.131649.111     Document Type: Article

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