Genome organization and long-range regulation of gene expression by enhancers

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 387-394

  Smallwood, Andrea ^a   Ren, Bing ^a,b  

^a LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARAC PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COHESIN; HEMOGLOBIN BETA CHAIN; NTRC PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA CONFORMATION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE REPRESSION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATOR GENE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HUMANS; MAMMALS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84879232679     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: 18790410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2013.02.005     Document Type: Review

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