Defining the Status of RNA Polymerase at Promoters

Cell Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1025-1035

  Core, Leighton J ^a   Waterfall, Joshua J ^a,c   Gilchrist, Daniel A ^b   Fargo, David C ^b   Kwak, Hojoong ^a   Adelman, Karen ^b   Lis, John T ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR; NEGATIVE ELONGATION FACTOR; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEADY STATE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 84868139307     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2012.08.034     Document Type: Article

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