Spt6 regulates intragenic and antisense transcription, nucleosome positioning, and histone modifications genome-wide in fission yeast

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 4779-4792

  DeGennaro, Christine M ^a   Alver, Burak H ^b   Marguerat, Samuel ^c,e   Stepanova, Ekaterina ^a   Davis, Christopher P ^a   Bähler, Jürg ^c   Park, Peter J ^b,d   Winston, Fred ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical Informatics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; LYSINE; RNA POLYMERASE II; CHAPERONE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; HISTONE; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOSOME; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEIN; SET2 PROTEIN, S POMBE; SPT6 PROTEIN, S POMBE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HISTONE MODIFICATION; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; HISTONE CHAPERONES; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; METHYLATION; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84893040276     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01068-13     Document Type: Article

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