Core promoters in transcription: Old problem, new insights

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 165-171

  Roy, Ananda L ^a   Singer, Dinah S ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Core promoter; Noncoding RNAs; RNA Pol II; Transcription

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENERAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MICRORNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIF; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIH; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84923108544     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: 13624326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2015.01.007     Document Type: Review

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