Divergent transcription is associated with promoters of transcriptional regulators

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lepoivre, Cyrille ^a,g   Belhocine, Mohamed ^a   Bergon, Aurélie ^a,b   Griffon, Aurélien ^a   Yammine, Miriam ^a,b   Vanhille, Laurent ^a,c,d,e   Zacarias Cabeza, Joaquin ^c,d,e   Garibal, Marc Antoine ^a   Koch, Frederic ^c,d,e   Maqbool, Muhammad A ^c,d,e   Fenouil, Romain ^c,d,e   Loriod, Beatrice ^a,b   Holota, Hélène ^a,b   Gut, Marta ^f   Gut, Ivo ^f   Imbert, Jean ^a,b   Andrau, Jean Christophe ^c,d,e   Puthier, Denis ^a,g   Spicuglia, Salvatore ^a  

^a Aix Marseille university   (France)

^b Parc Scientifique de Luminy   (France)

^c CENTRE D IMMUNOLOGIE DE MARSEILLE LUMINY   (France)

^d CNRS UMR6102   (France)

^e INSERM   (France)

^f National Institute of Bioinformatics   (Spain)

^g AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Bidirectional promoter; Developmental transcription factor; Divergent transcription; GC skew; lncRNA

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; HISTONE H3K79ME; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DIVERGENT TRANSCRIPTION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EXON; HISTONE MODIFICATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; THYMOCYTE; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; ANTISENSE ELEMENTS (GENETICS); BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMATIN; CPG ISLANDS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, LONG NONCODING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; THYMOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84890772287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-914     Document Type: Article

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