The Hierarchy of Transcriptional Activation: From Enhancer to Promoter

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 696-708

  Vernimmen, Douglas ^a   Bickmore, Wendy A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GENERAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; MEDIATOR COMPLEX; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TATA BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR;

CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84950143919     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: 13624555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2015.10.004     Document Type: Review

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