Chromatin and DNA sequences in defining promoters for transcription initiation

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1839, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 118-128

  Müller, Ferenc ^b   Tora, Làszlò ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Core promoter; CpG island; Epigenetic mark; Nucleosome depleted region; RNA polymerase II; Transcription initiation

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR; HISTONE H4; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; TATA BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CPG ISLAND; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DOWNSTREAM PROMOTER ELEMENT; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENOME; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INITIATOR ELEMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

CORE PROMOTER; CPG ISLAND; EPIGENETIC MARK; NUCLEOSOME DEPLETED REGION; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84896703296     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2013.11.003     Document Type: Review

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