Enhancer RNAs: The new molecules of transcription

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 38-42

  Lai, Fan ^a   Shiekhattar, Ramin ^a  

^a WISTAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN P53; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; ENHANCER REGION; G1 PHASE CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ANIMAL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; HUMANS; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84893046921     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2013.11.017     Document Type: Review

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