Linking Stochastic Fluctuations in Chromatin Structure and Gene Expression

PLoS Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Brown, Christopher R ^a   Mao, Changhui ^a   Falkovskaia, Elena ^a   Jurica, Melissa S ^a   Boeger, Hinrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PHO5 GENE; PROMOTER REGION; STATISTICS; STEADY STATE; YEAST;

CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; NUCLEOSOMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 84883138228     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001621     Document Type: Article

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