Transcription of Mammalian cis-Regulatory Elements Is Restrained by Actively Enforced Early Termination

Molecular Cell

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 460-474

  Austenaa, Liv M I ^a   Barozzi, Iros ^a,d   Simonatto, Marta ^a   Masella, Silvia ^a   Della Chiara, Giulia ^a   Ghisletti, Serena ^a   Curina, Alessia ^a   de Wit, Elzo ^b,e   Bouwman, Britta A M ^b   de Pretis, Stefano ^c   Piccolo, Viviana ^a   Termanini, Alberto ^a   Prosperini, Elena ^a   Pelizzola, Mattia ^c   de Laat, Wouter ^b   Natoli, Gioacchino ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; H3K4 METHYLTRANSFERASE; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; METHYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1; PROTEIN WDR 82; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; WDR82 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEPLETION; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL NUCLEUS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; MICE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84947750566     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.09.018     Document Type: Article

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