Tissue-dependent regulation of RNAP II dynamics: The missing link between transcription and trinucleotide repeat instability in diseases?

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Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 172-176

  Goula, Agathi Vasiliki ^a   Festenstein, Richard ^b   Merienne, Karine ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromatin structure; Huntington's disease; R loops; Somatic CAG CTG instability; Transcription dynamics; Transcription elongation; Trinucleotide repeat diseases

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; HUNTINGTIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; CHROMATIN; HISTONE; HTT PROTEIN, HUMAN; NERVE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAG REPEAT; CHROMATIN; ENZYME REGULATION; EXON; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HISTONE METHYLATION; HTT GENE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; ANIMAL; CEREBELLUM; CHEMISTRY; CORPUS STRIATUM; GENETICS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; CHROMATIN; CORPUS STRIATUM; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HISTONES; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION, GENETIC; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 84881632395     PISSN: 21541264     EISSN: 21541272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/trns.25971     Document Type: Article

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