Transcription factories, chromatin loops, and the dysregulation of gene expression in malignancy

Seminars in Cancer Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 65-71

  Deng, Binwei ^a   Melnik, Svitlana ^a   Cook, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromatin loop; Enhancer; Factory; RNA polymerase; Silencer; Transcription

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

CARCINOGENESIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN LOOP; ENHANCER REGION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN GENE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE MYC; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; RNA GENE; SAMD4A GENE; SILENCER ELEMENT; TNFAIP2 GENE; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84875595388     PISSN: 1044579X     EISSN: 10963650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2012.01.003     Document Type: Review

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