Convergent transcription induces transcriptional gene silencing in fission yeast and mammalian cells

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1193-1201

  Gullerova, Monika ^a   Proudfoot, Nick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CENTROMERE; CONVERGENT GENE TRANSCRIPTION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE SILENCING; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 84869091742     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2392     Document Type: Article

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