Global effects of the CSR-1 RNA interference pathway on the transcriptional landscape

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 358-365

  Cecere, Germano ^a   Hoersch, Sebastian ^b   O'keeffe, Sean ^a   Sachidanandam, Ravi ^c   Grishok, Alla ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; HISTONE H3; PROTEIN CSR 1; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MUTANT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SILENT GENE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84897997091     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2801     Document Type: Article

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