A global change in RNA polymerase II pausing during the Drosophila midblastula transition

eLife

Volumn 2013, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Chen, Kai ^a   Johnston, Jeff ^a   Shao, Wanqing ^a   Meier, Samuel ^a   Staber, Cynthia ^a   Zeitlinger, Julia ^a,b  

^a STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE II; HISTONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDBLASTULA TRANSITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ANIMAL; BLASTULA; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; BLASTULA; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DROSOPHILA; HISTONES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84881591218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.00861     Document Type: Article

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