Two DNA-encoded strategies for increasing expression with opposing effects on promoter dynamics and transcriptional noise

Genome Research

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 966-976

  Dadiani, Maya ^a   Van Dijk, David ^a,b   Segal, Barak ^a   Field, Yair ^a   Ben Artzi, Gil ^a   Raveh Sadka, Tali ^a   Levo, Michal ^a   Kaplow, Irene ^a   Weinberger, Adina ^a   Segal, Eran ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL POPULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; YEAST;

BINDING SITES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; POLY A-U; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84875214621     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.149096.112     Document Type: Article

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