Towards experimental manipulation of stochasticity in gene expression

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 44-53

  Viñuelas, José ^a   Kaneko, Gaël ^a,b   Coulon, Antoine ^c   Beslon, Guillaume ^b   Gandrillon, Olivier ^a  

^a CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

5 AzaC; 5 Azacytidine; A.u.; Chromatin; Circular causality; DNMTs; Gene expression noise; HDACs; MFI; NV; SGE; Stochasticity; Trichostatin A; TSA

Indexed keywords

AZACITIDINE; HYDROXAMIC ACID; TRICHOSTATIN A;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CHICKEN; CHROMATIN; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; AZACITIDINE; CELL LINE; CHICKENS; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYDROXAMIC ACIDS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84866004746     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

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