Disentangling the many layers of eukaryotic transcriptional regulation

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 43-68

  Lelli, Katherine M ^a   Slattery, Matthew ^b   Mann, Richard S ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENHANCEOSOME; EXTRADENTICLE PROTEIN; HOMOTHORAX PROTEIN; HOX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE MODIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EUKARYOTA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HISTONES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84870222914     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-110711-155437     Document Type: Review

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