The landscape of RNA polymerase II transcription initiation in C. elegans reveals promoter and enhancer architectures

Genome Research

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1339-1347

  Chen, Ron A J ^a   Down, Thomas A ^a   Stempor, Przemyslaw ^a   Chen, Q Brent ^b   Egelhofer, Thea A ^c   Hillier, LaDeana W ^d   Jeffers, Tess E ^b   Ahringer, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPPED RNA; HISTONE H3; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FUNCTION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SEQUENCE; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84879308632     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.153668.112     Document Type: Article

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