Reciprocal regulatory links between cotranscriptional splicing and chromatin

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 32, Issue , 2014, Pages 2-10

  de Almeida, Sérgio Fernandes ^a   Carmo Fonseca, Maria ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Chromatin; CTD; Nucleosome; RNA polymerase II; Splicing regulation

Indexed keywords

REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; CHROMATIN; HISTONE; RNA POLYMERASE II LARGEST SUBUNIT;

CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; MATURATION; NUCLEOSOME; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; RNA SYNTHESIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; SPLICEOSOME;

CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; HUMANS; METHYLATION; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOMES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84904462273     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: 10963634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2014.03.010     Document Type: Review

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