Analysis of nascent RNA identifies a unified architecture of initiation regions at mammalian promoters and enhancers

Nature Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1311-1320

  Core, Leighton J ^a,c   Martins, André L ^b   Danko, Charles G ^a,b   Waters, Colin T ^a,d   Siepel, Adam ^b,e   Lis, John T ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GLOBIN; HISTONE H3; INORGANIC PYROPHOSPHATASE; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; RNA; STAT6 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF; UNTRANSLATED RNA; CHROMATIN; HISTONE; NUCLEOSOME;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA SEQUENCE; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ENHANCER REGION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; K562 CELL LINE; PROBABILITY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING;

MAMMALIA;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; HISTONES; HUMANS; K562 CELLS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEOSOMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84927559450     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3142     Document Type: Article

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