GC skew defines distinct RNA polymerase pause sites in CpG island promoters

Genome Research

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1600-1609

  Kellner, Wendy A ^a,c   Bell, Joshua S K ^a,c   Vertino, Paula M ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; CHROMATIN; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CPG ISLAND; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CHROMATIN; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; MCF-7 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

BASE COMPOSITION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHROMATIN; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MCF-7 CELLS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA POLYMERASE II; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84946572317     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.189068.114     Document Type: Article

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