Spt4 is selectively required for transcription of extended trinucleotide repeats

Cell

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 690-701

  Liu, Chia Rung ^a   Chang, Chuang Rung ^b   Chern, Yijuang ^c   Wang, Tzu Han ^a   Hsieh, Wen Chieh ^a   Shen, Wen Chuan ^a   Chang, Chi Yuan ^a   Chu, I Chieh ^a   Deng, Ning ^d   Cohen, Stanley N ^d   Cheng, Tzu Hao ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUNTINGTIN; MESSENGER RNA; POLYGLUTAMINE; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR SPT4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

EID: 84863160228     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.12.032     Document Type: Article

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