Mediator-Regulated Transcription through the +1 Nucleosome

Molecular Cell

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 837-848

  Nock, Adam ^a   Ascano, Janice M ^a   Barrero, Maria J ^a,b   Malik, Sohail ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Centre de Medicina Regenerativa de Barcelona   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR; ELONGATION FACTOR S2; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; NUCLEOSOME; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HISTONES; MEDIATOR COMPLEX; NUCLEOSOMES; P300-CBP TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, GENERAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

EID: 84871700533     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2012.10.009     Document Type: Article

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