Transcriptional Initiation: Frequency, Bursting, and Transcription Factories

Genome Organization and Function in the Cell Nucleus

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 235-254

  Finan, Kieran ^a   Cook, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Green fluorescent protein; RNA FISH; RNA polymerase; Single molecule analysis; Transcription

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875622004     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527639991.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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