Role of DNA sequence based structural features of promoters in transcription initiation and gene expression

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 25, Issue , 2014, Pages 77-85

  Bansal, Manju ^a   Kumar, Aditya ^a   Yella, Venkata Rajesh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 84893517434     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2014.01.007     Document Type: Review

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