Noncoding transcription at enhancers: General principles and functional models

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-19

  Natoli, Gioacchino ^a   Andrau, Jean Christophe ^b,c  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b CENTRE D IMMUNOLOGIE DE MARSEILLE LUMINY   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCEOSOME; POL II PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ENHANCER REGION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; HISTONES; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84870182699     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-110711-155459     Document Type: Review

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