Transcriptional burst frequency and burst size are equally modulated across the human genome

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

Volumn 109, Issue 43, 2012, Pages 17454-17459

  Dar, Roy D ^a,b,c   Razooky, Brandon S ^a,d,e   Singh, Abhyudai ^d,i   Trimeloni, Thomas V ^h   McCollum, James M ^h   Cox, Chris D ^c,f   Simpson, Michael L ^b,f   Weinberger, Leor S ^a,d,g  

^a GLADSTONE INSTITUTES   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h Virginia Commonwealth University   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated single cell imaging; Human immunodeficiency virus; Long terminal repeat promoter; Stochastic noise

Indexed keywords

TRICHOSTATIN A; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; HYDROXAMIC ACIDS; LENTIVIRUS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84867914780     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213530109     Document Type: Article

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