Transcription forms and remodels supercoiling domains unfolding large-scale chromatin structures

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 387-395

  Naughton, Catherine ^a,b   Avlonitis, Nicolaos ^b   Corless, Samuel ^a   Prendergast, James G ^a   Mati, Ioulia K ^b   Eijk, Paul P ^c   Cockroft, Scott L ^b   Bradley, Mark ^b   Ylstra, Bauke ^c   Gilbert, Nick ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF; TRIMETHYLPSORALEN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SUPERCOILING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING;

CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SQUALENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84875134984     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2509     Document Type: Article

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